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245 1 4 _aThe voice of breast cancer in medicine and bioethics
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Mary C. Rawlinson, Shannon Lundeen.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2006.
300 _aXIX, 205 p.
_bonline resource.
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aDiscourses of Breast Cancer: Who Speaks for Breast Cancer? -- Women Finding Their Own Ways to Live with Human Contingency Negotiating Personal and Political Settlements with Breast Cancer -- Power, Gender, and Pizzazz: The Early Years of Breast Cancer Activism -- Breast Cancer: Dueling Discourses and the Persistence of an Outmoded Paradigm -- Doing Things with Ideas and Affects in the Illness Narratives Of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Narratives of Breast Cancer: Living with Disease -- The Breast Cancer Diaries -- Breast Cancer: The Maternal Body Reflected in a Three-way Mirror -- Learn to Love What's Left -- Death and the Other -- Breast Cancer as a Model in Clinical Research -- Breast Cancer Research -- Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer and Informed Consent -- The Role of Psychosocial Research in Understanding and Improving the Experience of Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Risk -- Breast Cancer in the Classroom -- Teaching about Breast Cancer and "Common Health" -- Theoretical Considerations on "Reading" the Breast -- Recent Developments in Breast Cancer Research.
520 _aFew 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.
650 0 _aMedicine.
650 0 _aCancer research.
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aMedicine
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aOncology.
650 0 _aSociology.
650 0 _aSex (Psychology).
650 0 _aGender expression.
650 0 _aGender identity.
650 1 4 _aMedicine & Public Health.
650 2 4 _aOncology.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Medicine.
650 2 4 _aEthics.
650 2 4 _aCancer Research.
650 2 4 _aMedicine/Public Health, general.
650 2 4 _aGender Studies.
700 1 _aRawlinson, Mary C.
_eeditor.
700 1 _aLundeen, Shannon.
_eeditor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9781402045080
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4477-1
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950 _aMedicine (Springer-11650)
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