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Cancer activism：gender, media, and public policy

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Main Authors: Kedrowski Karen M
Group Author: Sarow Marilyn S
Published: University of Illinois Press,
Publisher Address: Urbana
Publication Dates: c2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Breast > Cancer > Political aspects > United States
Breast > Cancer > Social aspects > United States
Prostate > Cancer > Political aspects > United States
Prostate > Cancer > Social aspects > United States
Breast Neoplasms > United States
Mass media > United States
Patient Advocacy > United States
Prostatic Neoplasms > United States
Public policy > United States
Social Marketing > United States
Sein > Cancer > Aspect politique > États-Unis
Sein > Cancer > Aspect social > États-Unis
Prostate > Cancer > Aspect politique > États-Unis
Prostate > Cancer > Aspect social > États-Unis
Carrier Form: xxiii, 288 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780252031984 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252031989 (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: R737
CLC: R737.9
R737.25
Call Number: R737.9/K259
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-278) and index.
Two activist movements emerge -- A typology of grassroots survivors' organizations -- Breast cancer and prostate cancer in the media -- The public face of cancer: breast cancer and prostate cancer and public perceptions of risk -- Media advocacy evidence -- Two cancers go to Congress: media advocacy and the policy agenda -- Agenda maintenance: the politics of issue definition and framing -- Ribbon wars: cause-related marketing and the selling of breast cancer and prostate cancer -- Policy dilemmas and maturing movements.

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