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Breast Cancer
. Ed(S): Kasper, Anne S.; Ferguson, Susan J.
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Description for Breast Cancer
Paperback. This text looks at how economics, politics, gender, and other factors have influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and influenced women's experiences with breast cancer. Editor(s): Kasper, Anne S.; Ferguson, Susan J. Num Pages: 400 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH; MJCL; VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This is not a book about breast cancer as a biological disease, its diagnosis and treatment, or the latest research to cure it. Rather, it looks at how economics, politics, gender, social class, and race-ethnicity have deeply influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and defined and influenced women s experiences with breast cancer. The ... Read more
Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This is not a book about breast cancer as a biological disease, its diagnosis and treatment, or the latest research to cure it. Rather, it looks at how economics, politics, gender, social class, and race-ethnicity have deeply influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and defined and influenced women s experiences with breast cancer. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312294519
SKU
V9780312294519
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About . Ed(S): Kasper, Anne S.; Ferguson, Susan J.
ANNE S. KASPER is Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago. SUSAN J. FERGUSON is Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College.
Reviews for Breast Cancer
"A refreshing addition to the literature of breast cancer, this book contends that it is societal change as much as anything that will lead to better treatment and prevention of breast cancer" - Publishers Weekly "This is not the first book to bring a feminist, social analysis to the issue of breast cancer and the activism it ... Read more