Breast cancer
Subtitle: society shapes an epidemic
By: [edited by] Anne S. Kasper, Susan J. Ferguson
Contributors: Kasper, Anne S; Ferguson, Susan J; Love, Susan M
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Breast -- Cancer -- Popular works; Breast -- Cancer -- Social aspects -- United States
Genres: Popular works
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Susan M. Love; title: Introduction: Living with breast cancer / Susan J. Ferguson, Anne S. Kasper; title: 1. Inventing a curable disease: historical perspectives on breast cancer / Barron H. Lerner; title: 2. Deformities and diseased: the medicalization of women's breasts / Susan J. Ferguson; title: 3. Breast cancer and the evolving health care system: why health care reform is a breast cancer issue / Ellen R. Shaffer; title: 4. Profits from pain: the political economy of breast cancer / Jane S. Zones; title: 5. Women's experiences of breast cancer / Marcy E. Rosenbaum and Gun M. Roos; title: 6. Barriers and burdens: poor women face breast cancer / Anne S. Kasper; title: 7. Breast cancer policymaking / Carol S. Weisman; title: 8. Controversies in breast cancer research / Sue V. Rosser; title: 9. The environmental link to breast cancer / Sandra Steingraber; title: 10. Breast cancer in popular women's magazines from 1913 to 1996 / Jennifer R. Foshet, Angela Karran, and Christine LaFia; title: 11. Sister support: women create a breast cancer movement / Barbara A. Brenner; title: Conclusion: eliminating breast cancer from our future / Anne S. Kasper and Susan J. Ferguson; title: About the contributors; title: Index