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Who’s Afraid of Fear? Postwar Emotions and the Cancer Experience Who’s Afraid of Fear? Postwar Emotions and the Cancer Experience
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Telling Straight Up and Acting Out: From Hidden Fears to Public Anger Telling Straight Up and Acting Out: From Hidden Fears to Public Anger
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Epilogue: Positive Emotions and the Return of Fear Epilogue: Positive Emotions and the Return of Fear
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Six Oncomotions: Experience and Debates in West Germany and the United States after 1945
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Published:May 2014
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Abstract
Focusing on cancer as an example of broader post-war phenomena, this chapter identifies two conflicting emotional regimes in the late 1950s and early 1960s. While one regime perceived the balanced and optimistic attitude of cancer patients as something basically positive, the other one identified this attitude as a fundamentally harmful repression of one's inner feelings. This paradox of fear, moreover, is at the same time evident in educating children, the rhetoric of the 1950s peace movements, and in civil defence brochures: fear registers as omnipresent as it is branded negative, rational, pathological or even harmful. The chapter then identifies two factors that contributed to a gradual shift in emotional regimes around cancer: the emerging concept of “informed consent” and the rise of psychosomatic medicine which changed the therapeutic encounter drastically. Finally 1960s cancer treatment, especially the practice of radical mastectomy in the United States, triggered an angry a protest movement against the established medicine branded as paternalistic and devoid of emotions.
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