Overview

Few diseases have made more difference to our understanding of illness, the relation of the patient to the physician and other health care professionals, and the social context of disease than breast cancer. Breast cancer activism has provided a model of public policy advocacy for women, as well as for sufferers from other diseases, and even in causes unrelated to health. In many ways it has become emblematic of issues in women’s health. This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast cancer. From multiple perspectives—historical, philosophical, psychological, socio-political—these essays explore the competing narratives that have made breast cancer a contested site. It addresses debates about the autonomy of the patient in relation to the authority of the physician, as well as the importance of patient narratives in understanding disease. It analyzes the relation between the community and medical practice, particularly with regard to the effect of breast cancer activists and feminists on the medical understanding and treatment of breast cancer. And, it questions the intersection of medical science with political institutions and agencies of public policy in determining priorities of research and strategies of treatment.

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Author:   Mary C. Rawlinson ,  Shannon Lundeen
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2006
Volume:   88
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.361kg
ISBN:  

9789048171392

ISBN 10:   9048171393
Pages:   205
Publication Date:   10 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION. Negotiating Personal and Political Settlements in Breast Cancer: Women Finding Their Own Ways to Live with Human Contingency; R. Tong. PART 1: DISCOURSES OF BREAST CANCER: WHO SPEAKS FOR BREAST CANCER? 1. Personalizing the Political: Negotiating the Feminist, Medical, Scientific, and Commercial Discourses Surrounding Breast Cancer; S. Sherwin. 2. Power, Gender, and Pizzazz:The Early Years of Breast Cancer Activism; Barron Lerner 3. Breast Cancer: Dueling Discourses and the Persistence of an Outmoded Paradigm; G. Gertz. 4. Doing Things with Ideas and Affects in the Illness Narratives of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; L. Diedrich. PART 2: NARRATIVES OF BREAST CANCER: LIVING WITH DISEASE. 5. The Breast Cancer Diaries; A. Ho. 6. Breast Cancer: The Maternal Body Reflected in a Three-way Mirror; D. Gold. 7. Learn to Love What’s Left—Poems of Breast Cancer; L. Kendrick. 8. Death and the Other: Rethinking Authenticity; G. Weiss. PART 3: BREAST CANCER AS A MODEL IN CLINICAL RESEARCH. 9. Breast Cancer Research: A Political Cause and Paradigm for Scientific Inquiry; J.S. Kovach. 10. Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer and Informed Consent: How Women Helped Make Research a Cooperative Venture; L.M. Kopelman. 11. The Role of Psychosocial Research in Understanding and Improving the Experience of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Risk; A. Moyer, M. Lobel. PART 4: BREAST CANCER IN THE CLASSROOM. 12. Teaching about Breast Cancer and 'Common Health'; H.R. Lemay. 13. Theoretical Considerations on 'Reading' the Breast; T. Emin-Tunc. 14. Recent Developments in Breast Cancer Research; S. Maslyanskaya.

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