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Philosophy and Medicine

By: Mary C. Rawlinson (Editor), Shannon Lundeen (Editor)

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Hardcover | 4 May 2006

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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 for sufferers from other diseases, and even in causes unrelated to health. In many ways it has become emblematic of issues in women's health.

This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast cancer. From multiple perspectives-historical, philosophical, psychological, socio-political-these essays explore the competing narratives that have made breast cancer a contested site. It addresses debates about the autonomy of the patient in relation to the authority of the physician, as well as the importance of patient narratives in understanding disease. It analyzes the relation between the community and medical practice, particularly with regard to the effect of breast cancer activists and feminists on the medical understanding and treatment of breast cancer. And, it questions the intersection of medical science with political institutions and agencies of public policy in determining priorities of research and strategies of treatment.

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Negotiating personal and political settlements with breast cancer : women finding their own ways to live with human contingency
Personalizing the political : negotiating the feminist, medical, scientific, and commercial discourses surrounding breast cancer	p. 3
Power, gender, and pizzazz : the early years of breast cancer activism	p. 21
Breast cancer : dueling discourses and the persistence of an outmoded paradigm	p. 31
Doing things with ideas and affects in the illness narratives of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick	p. 53
The breast cancer diaries	p. 71
Breast cancer : the maternal body reflected in a three-way mirror	p. 89
Learn to love what's left : poems on breast cancer	p. 95
Death and the other : rethinking authenticity	p. 103
Breast cancer research : a political cause and paradigm for scientific inquiry	p. 119
Clinical trials for breast cancer and informed consent : how women helped make research a cooperative venture	p. 133
The role of psychosocial research in understanding and improving the experience of breast cancer and breast cancer risk	p. 163
Teaching about breast cancer and "common health"	p. 185
Theoretical considerations on "reading" the breast	p. 195
Recent developments in breast cancer research	p. 203
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