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The voice of breast cancer in medicine and bioethics

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Corporate Authors: NetLibrary, Inc.
Group Author: Lundeen Shannon.; Rawlinson Mary C.
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: Dordrecht, Netherlands
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Philosophy and medicine ; v. 88
Subjects:
Cancer.
Breast > Cancer > Social aspects.
Bioethics.
Breast neoplasms.
Bioethical Issues.
Ethics, Medical.
Philosophy, Medical.
Electronic books.
Breast > Cancer.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4477-1
Carrier Form: xix, 207 p.: ill.
ISBN: 1402044771 (electronic bk.)
9781402044779 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: R737
CLC: R737.9
Contents: Includes bibliographical references.
Negotiating personal and political settlements with breast cancer: women finding their own ways to live with human contingency / Rosemarie Tong -- Personalizing the political: negotiating the feminist, medical, scientific and commercial discourses surrounding breast cancer / Susan Sherwin -- Power, gender, and pizzazz: the early years of breast cancer activism / Barron Lerner -- Breast cancer: dueling discourses and the persistence of an outmoded paradigm / Gwynne Gertz -- Doing things with ideas and affects in the illness narratives of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / Lisa Diedrich -- The breast cancer diaries / Anita Ho -- Breast cancer: the maternal body reflected in a three-way mirror / Debra Gold -- Learn to love what's left: poems on breast cancer / Leatha Kendrick -- Death and the other: rethinking authenticity / Gail Weiss -- Breast cancer research: a political cause and paradigm for scientific inquiry / John S. Kovach -- Clinical trials for breast cancer and informed consent: how women helped make research a cooperative venture / Loretta M. Kopelman -- The role of psychosocial research in understanding and improving the experience of breast cancer and breast cancer risk / Anne Moyer and Marci Lobel -- Teaching about breast cancer and "common health" / Helen Rodnite Lemay -- Theoretical considerations on "reading" the breast / Tanfer Emin-Tunc -- Recent developments in breast cancer research / Sofya Maslyanskaya.

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