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February 26, 2026Open Access

Making Cancer Awareness “Hot”

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ZCZoe Copeman

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Implication

Analysis reveals that visual rhetoric shaped cancer detection messaging for the target audience, indicating gender biases in health representation.

Key Points

  • The article examines the visual rhetoric used in early American anti-cancer campaigns and its implications for gender and race.
  • Analyzes historical cancer campaigns from the early 20th century in the United States.
  • Investigates the imagery and messaging directed at women in relation to cancer detection.
  • Considers the influence of predominantly white medical men on public health messaging.
  • Identifies a gendered and racial-biased approach in cancer campaigns' visual rhetoric.
  • Uncovers the portrayal of an 'ideal' woman influencing public health communications.
  • Highlights the exclusionary imagery used to reach specific target audiences.

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Zoe Copeman (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699f95571bc9fecf3dab2f07https://doi.org/10.60837/curare.v47i1-2.3835
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