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The voice of breast cancer in medicine and bioethics / edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and Shannon Lundeen.
- Date
- [2006], ©2006
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer, [2006], ©2006.
Physical description
xix, 207 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Negotiating personal and political settlements with breast cancer: women finding their own ways to live with human contingency / Rosemarie Tong -- Personalizing the political: negotiating the feminist, medical, scientific and commercial discourses surrounding breast cancer / Susan Sherwin -- Power, gender, and pizzazz: the early years of breast cancer activism / Barron Lerner -- Breast cancer: dueling discourses and the persistence of an outmoded paradigm / Gwynne Gertz -- Doing things with ideas and affects in the illness narratives of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / Lisa Diedrich -- The breast cancer diaries / Anita Ho -- Breast cancer: the maternal body reflected in a three-way mirror / Debra Gold -- Learn to love what's left: poems on breast cancer / Leatha Kendrick -- Death and the other: rethinking authenticity / Gail Weiss -- Breast cancer research: a political cause and paradigm for scientific inquiry / John S. Kovach -- Clinical trials for breast cancer and informed consent: how women helped make research a cooperative venture / Loretta M. Kopelman -- The role of psychosocial research in understanding and improving the experience of breast cancer and breast cancer risk / Anne Moyer and Marci Lobel -- Teaching about breast cancer and "common health" / Helen Rodnite Lemay -- Theoretical considerations on "reading" the breast / Tanfer Emin-Tunc -- Recent developments in breast cancer research / Sofya Maslyanskaya.
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineUK.PMOpen shelves
Permanent link
Identifiers
ISBN
- 1402045085
- 9781402045080
- 1402044771
- 9781402044779