Mary C. Rawlinson,
Shannon Lundeen
Springer Netherlands
2006e druk, 2011
9789048171392
The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics
Specificaties
Paperback, 205 blz.
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Engels
Springer Netherlands |
2006e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9789048171392
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Philosophy and Medicine
Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Unlike any other volume focusing on women’s health issues, this collection brings together a wealth of cross-disciplinary perspectives to bear on the intersection of breasts and medicine.
Among other works on similar subject matters, the academic versatility of this volume is unparalleled. This collection can serve as a textbook in a wide range of courses including those in philosophy, women’s studies, biology, psychology, literature, history, and medicine.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9789048171392
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:205
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands
Druk:2006
Serie:Philosophy and Medicine
Inhoudsopgave
INTRODUCTION. Negotiating Personal and Political Settlements in Breast Cancer: Women Finding Their Own Ways to Live with Human Contingency; R. Tong. PART 1: DISCOURSES OF BREAST CANCER: WHO SPEAKS FOR BREAST CANCER? 1. Personalizing the Political: Negotiating the Feminist, Medical, Scientific, and Commercial Discourses Surrounding Breast Cancer; S. Sherwin. 2. Power, Gender, and Pizzazz:The Early Years of Breast Cancer Activism; Barron Lerner 3. Breast Cancer: Dueling Discourses and the Persistence of an Outmoded Paradigm; G. Gertz. 4. Doing Things with Ideas and Affects in the Illness Narratives of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; L. Diedrich. PART 2: NARRATIVES OF BREAST CANCER: LIVING WITH DISEASE. 5. The Breast Cancer Diaries; A. Ho. 6. Breast Cancer: The Maternal Body Reflected in a Three-way Mirror; D. Gold. 7. Learn to Love What’s Left—Poems of Breast Cancer; L. Kendrick. 8. Death and the Other: Rethinking Authenticity; G. Weiss. PART 3: BREAST CANCER AS A MODEL IN CLINICAL RESEARCH. 9. Breast Cancer Research: A Political Cause and Paradigm for Scientific Inquiry; J.S. Kovach. 10. Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer and Informed Consent: How Women Helped Make Research a Cooperative Venture; L.M. Kopelman. 11. The Role of Psychosocial Research in Understanding and Improving the Experience of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Risk; A. Moyer, M. Lobel. PART 4: BREAST CANCER IN THE CLASSROOM. 12. Teaching about Breast Cancer and 'Common Health'; H.R. Lemay. 13. Theoretical Considerations on 'Reading' the Breast; T. Emin-Tunc. 14. Recent Developments in Breast Cancer Research; S. Maslyanskaya.
