A construção social da doença: câncer de pulmão e suas ressignificações.

Abstract

Abstract: This study aims to comprehend the process of social construction of illness lung cancer made by Brazilian media in the period comprising the years 2005-2010. Accordingly, reports on important newspapers and magazines in the country, disclosed during those years, during which the highest index of the disease occurred in Brazil were analyzed. In the same way, it is questionable whether the speech generated by moral achievers creates a moral panic that displaces the symbolic efficiency, which elects the cigarette as the scapegoat of the disease in effective efficiency by make society believe that smoking is the main cause of the illness. We sought to identify whether still with the advancement of scientific knowledge about cancer, there was in parallel, the significant increase of prevention policies. In this way, in the present research will defend itself-the thesis that there is a redefinition of the disease cancer, in particular the lung cancer in Brazilian society. The methodology utilized for the realization and analyzing the data is content analysis.