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The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rawlinson, Mary C. (Editor), Lundeen, Shannon (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edition:1st ed. 2006.
Series:Philosophy and Medicine, 88
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Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Discourses 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.