- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (Jan 11 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312294514
- ISBN-13: 978-0312294519
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.2 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,863,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
Breast cancer has replaced AIDS as the "disease of the moment," which, as Breast Cancer shows, did not happen by accident. Edited by two sociologists and written by academics, this book examines the social and political circumstances that led to the current activism. Although Dr. Susan Love wrote the foreword, there is no clinical information here. Instead, the various chapters examine the influence of economics, politics, social class, gender, and race/ethnicity on medical research and health policy. The contributors consider how society's view of women has influenced their understanding and experience of breast cancer and note that AIDS activism and the early feminist movement inspired women to fight this disease. They also point out that while corporate involvement has generated good will and useful publicity, it has also created a "breast cancer industry" more interested in the profits from diagnosis and treatment than prevention. Although Ellen Leopold's A Darker Ribbon (LJ 10/1/99) examines the social and cultural aspects of the disease, it focuses on the changing doctor-patient relationships; this thought-provoking book takes a broader view, analyzing scientific research, health policy, the media, and the environment and their effects on breast cancer. Recommended for academic, health sciences, women's studies, and large public libraries.DBarbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., CA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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“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 has inspired. It is, however, one of the best...” —Women's Review of Books
“...a trenchant analysis of the social, economic, and political dimensions of breast cancer...” —New England Journal of Medicine
“This book helps reveal what it means to have breast cancer in America today.” —Mamm
...a very good book... writing is accessible, individual chapters are clear and pointed, and the book succeeds...
-Contemporary Sociology
“This is not the first book to bring a feminist, social analysis to the issue of breast cancer and the activism it has inspired. It is, however, one of the best...” —Women's Review of Books
“...a trenchant analysis of the social, economic, and political dimensions of breast cancer...” —New England Journal of Medicine
“This book helps reveal what it means to have breast cancer in America today.” —Mamm
...a very good book... writing is accessible, individual chapters are clear and pointed, and the book succeeds...
-Contemporary Sociology
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Best book on the subject so far,
By Margaret Mann (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: BREAST CANCER: Society Shapes an Epidemic (Hardcover)
Finally, someone has written an intelligent discussion of why this epidemic is plaguing us. The writing is very articulate. The authors really know what they are talking about.
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A watershed look at breast cancer,
By Jill Gay (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: BREAST CANCER: Society Shapes an Epidemic (Hardcover)
This book represents a new view of breast cancer from the perspective of a group of commited feminists and founders of the women's health movement. Through this book, we learn to understand breast cancer and how it impacts on poor women as well as the important environmental links to breast cancer.
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A watershed look at breast cancer,
By Jill Gay - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: BREAST CANCER: Society Shapes an Epidemic (Hardcover)
This book represents a new view of breast cancer from the perspective of a group of commited feminists and founders of the women's health movement. Through this book, we learn to understand breast cancer and how it impacts on poor women as well as the important environmental links to breast cancer.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best book on the subject so far,
By Margaret Mann - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: BREAST CANCER: Society Shapes an Epidemic (Hardcover)
Finally, someone has written an intelligent discussion of why this epidemic is plaguing us. The writing is very articulate. The authors really know what they are talking about.
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