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So Much to Be Done : The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner /
"What kind of cancer is it?" was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His answer: "You don't need to know that." Wrong response. Brenner, who was already an activist, made knowing her business and spread...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- A PORTRAIT OF BARBARA BRENNER
- INTRODUCTION: Barbara Brenner, Breast Cancer Action, and the Birth of a Politicized Breast Cancer Movement
- PART I. BUILDING A MOVEMENT, 1995-2010
- Hope, Politics, and Living with Breast Cancer
- Loss and Inspiration
- Let Them Lick Stamps
- Fiddling While Rome Burns: The Latest Mammogram Controversy
- Reflections on a Handmaid's Tale
- Words Matter
- My Sister's Keeper
- Educate, Agitate, Organize-Now!
- One Pill Makes You Smaller ...
- Thinking Out Loud: Toward a New Research Strategy
- Rolling the Dice
- Respecting the Past, Creating the Future
- Making Choices
- Living on the Edge
- Breast Cancer Treatment: Promise versus Reality
- Exercise Your Mind
- The Crazy Days of Autumn
- Lessons from Long Island
- Waging War, Making Connections
- Solving the Breast Cancer Puzzle: Advancing the Research Revolution
- Forests and Trees: Reflections on Pink Bracelets and Narrow Visions
- Fifteen Years of Activism: Standing on Many Shoulders
- Era of Hope, Hype, or Hoax: Is It Time for Change in the DoD Breast Cancer Research Program?
- Meaningful Results: Getting What We Need from Science
- BCA's Survey on Aromatase Inhibitors: Meeting the Needs of Patients
- Moving beyond the Personal in Environmental Health
- Putting Patients First: The Need for Better Standards at the FDA
- The Organic Process of Activism: Think Before You Pink®, Then and Now
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month: The Present Looks like the Past
- So Much to Celebrate, So Much to Be Done
- PART II. THOUGHTS ON DYING AND LIVING, 2011-2013
- Don't Ask Me How I Am
- Patient? Who's Patient?
- Don't Make Promises You Can't Keep- Especially in Health
- Isn't It Time to Change the Message?
- Uncertainty, a Teaching for Rosh Hashanah 5771
- A New Name
- Passover
- There's That Person with ...
- The Obligation of Privilege
- Can and Can't List
- That's Why They Call Them "Trials
- People's Lives as the Endpoints of Medical Research-Now There's a Nifty Idea
- Understanding Health Numbers: Not Easy, but Important
- Having a Voice, Communicating, and Somewhere in Between
- Walk for Your Health, but It Won't Help Anyone Else's, Much
- Thoughts on Dying and Living
- How Do You Spell Chutzpah? K-o-m-e-n
- Drug Development and Access: Time to Act like Lives Depend on It
- Science by Press Release-Not Good News for Patients
- Health Activism-Not for the Faint of Heart
- Pink Ribbons and Lou Gehrig: Time to Bury Useless Symbols
- Mi Shebeirach: Thoughts on Illness and Blessing
- Is October over Yet?
- Labyrinth
- IOM Report on Breast Cancer and the Environment: What Komen's One Million Dollars Bought
- Gloves Off: What the Fuck, Komen?
- Yosemite
- Smith College Medal
- Context Is Everything: Framing the Film Pink Ribbons, Inc
- Choices: How I Live with ALS
- Thoughts on Leadership-Listen Up, Nancy Brinker
- Point Reyes
- Changing the Culture of Health Care in a Consumer Society-Not So Easy
- Whatever Happened to Previews of Coming Attractions in Health?
- Susan Love: Time to Think before You Pink
- Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? A Yom Kippur Reflection
- NBCC: The Promise, the Process, and the Problems
- Winter Weather
- What I Learned as a Volunteer
- January 19, 2013
- February 11, 2013
- Thanks and Blessings
- Afterword.