The voice of breast cancer in medicine and bioethics

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Springer, 2006. — 221 p. — ISBN 978-1-4020-4508-0.AcknowledgementsIntroductionRosemarie Tong Negotiating Personal and Political Settlements with Breast Cancer: Women Finding Their Own Ways to Live with Human ContingencyDiscourses of Breast Cancer: Who Speaks for Breast Cancer?Susan Sherwin Personalizing the Political: Negotiating the Feminist, Medical, Scientific, and Commercial Discourses Surrounding Breast CancerBarron Lerner Power, Gender, and Pizzazz: The Early Years of Breast Cancer ActivismGwynne Gertz Breast Cancer: Dueling Discourses and the Persistence of an Outmoded ParadigmLisa Diedrich Doing Things with Ideas and Affects in the Illness Narratives Of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky SedgwickNarratives of Breast Cancer: Living with DiseaseAnita Ho The Breast Cancer DiariesDebra Gold Breast Cancer: The Maternal Body Reflected in a Three-way MirrorLeatha Kendrick Learn to Love What’s Left : Poems on Breast CancerGail Weiss Death and the Other: Rethinking AuthenticityBreast Cancer as a Model in Clinical ResearchJohn S. Kovach Breast Cancer Research: A Political Cause and Paradigm for Scientific InquiryLoretta M. Kopelman Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer and Informed Consent: How Women Helped Make Research a Cooperative VentureAnne Moyer and Marci Lobel The Role of Psychosocial Research in Understanding and Improving the Experience of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer RiskBreast Cancer in the ClassroomHelen Rodnite Lemay Teaching about Breast Cancer and “Common Health”Tanfer Emin-Tunc Theoretical Considerations on “Reading” the BreastSofya Maslyanskaya Recent Developments in Breast Cancer Research