Asian Studies Programme, Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata City, Japan.
Am J Mens Health. 2022 Jan-Feb;16(1):15579883221076658. doi: 10.1177/15579883221076658.
In a country where cancer has been dubbed a "national disease" () that mostly affects Japanese men, this article presents a reading of the cultural scripts underneath prostate cancer-one of the "Western type of cancers" (). The reading is grounded in an adaptation of the "sexual scripting theory," the construct of cancer-literacy, and the analysis of 3,092 newspaper reports published from 2005 to 2020, in three Japanese newspapers with the largest circulation in the country. The analysis is presented in line with three axes: cancer-self, cancer-biopedagogy, and cancer-economics to indicate that a cancer-self largely entails the subjectivity of a , married, heterosexual man who undergoes andropause, needs to understand what is, and depends on his family and the feminization of care to cope with cancer. The chances to prevent and/or survive the disease chiefly hinge on adopting a form of cancer-biopedagogy, which entails a composite entanglement of knowledge and health-related practices underpinned by the ethnicization of cancer through the consumption of "traditional food" () and the assumption that turning into a "healthy self" is determined by Japanese ethnic traits. Cancer-economics is concerned with costs of testing and treatments, health care insurance policies, and food and dietary supplements that serve to commodify a cancer-self who deals with prostate and urinary-related issues.
在一个被称为“国病”的国家里，癌症主要影响日本男性，本文解读了前列腺癌这一“西方型癌症”背后的文化脚本。这种解读基于对“性脚本理论”、癌症素养的构建以及对 2005 年至 2020 年间日本三家发行量最大的报纸上刊登的 3092 篇报道的分析。分析围绕三个轴展开：癌症自我、癌症生物教育学和癌症经济学，以表明癌症自我在很大程度上涉及到经历更年期的、已婚的、异性恋男性的主观性，他需要了解前列腺是什么，并且依赖于他的家庭和护理的女性化来应对癌症。预防和/或战胜这种疾病的机会主要取决于采用一种癌症生物教育学的形式，这种形式涉及到通过消费“传统食物”（）将癌症种族化，以及通过假设变成“健康的自我”取决于日本的种族特征，从而将知识和与健康相关的实践结合在一起。癌症经济学涉及到检测和治疗费用、医疗保险政策以及食品和膳食补充剂，这些都将前列腺和泌尿系统相关问题的癌症自我商品化。
