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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.

Breast --- Bioethics. --- Cancer. --- Cancer --- Social aspects. --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Breast cancer --- Social aspects --- Bioethics

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In 'Ontboezemingen over borstkanker' vertellen bekende en minder bekende Vlamingen openhartig aan Frieda Joris, zelf een gewezen borstkankerpatiënte, over hun persoonlijke ervaringen met deze ziekte. Preventie, chemotherapie, operatie en borstamputatie, goede en slechte dagen, hoop en wanhoop, de gevolgen van borstkanker op de relatie, revalidatie en onzekerheid na het genezingsproces: deze en vele andere gevoelige onderwerpen komen in dit inspirerende boek aan bod.

Borstkanker --- Ziek zijn ; psychologie --- Patiënten --- Oncology. Neoplasms --- Breast --- Cancer --- Treatment --- Personal narratives --- Provincie West-Vlaanderen --- 610 --- kanker --- gezondheid van de vrouw --- borst --- gezondheid --- santé --- Book --- Breast cancer --- Edited volume --- Experiences

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Although there are numerous technical-scientific books on breast cancer in the global bibliography, such books deal exclusively with the nature of the disease in majority populations of the Western societies, with little or no reference to the nature of the disease in the minority populations in such societies. Similarly, the nature of breast cancer in black women of the less privileged societies, and in women of ethnic groups living in countries of similar socio-economic status, is virtually unknown. For various epidemiological reasons, breast cancer incidence is rapidly increasing in these counties, more so than currently is the case in developed countries. Thus, the global burden of cancer is shifting gradually to these areas of the world, and may equal or even surpass the breast cancer burden in the Western societies within the foreseeable future. This book is unique because it bucks the trend of virtually all other breast cancer books by addressing specifically the breast cancer experience of women of African descent and their lifestyle counterparts in other societies of the world.

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