TY - BOOK ID - 32822110 TI - Mammographies : the cultural discourses of breast cancer narratives AU - DeShazer, Mary K. AU - Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) PY - 2013 SN - 0472029231 0472900986 047211882X 9780472900985 9780472029235 PB - Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, DB - UniCat KW - Breast KW - Ethnicity KW - Transcultural medical care. KW - Radiography KW - Imaging KW - Health aspects. KW - Cross-cultural medical care KW - Cross-cultural medicine KW - Transcultural medicine KW - Ethnic identity KW - Breasts KW - Medical care KW - Social medicine KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Chest KW - Large-breasted women KW - Sociology KW - Breast cancer KW - Lorde KW - Mastectomy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32822110 AB - While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. Mary K. DeShazer's book looks specifically at breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, a category she refers to as mammographies, signifying both the imaging technology by which most Western women discover they have this disease and the documentary imperatives that drive their written and visual accounts of it. Mammographies argues that breast cancer narratives of the past ten years differ from their predecessors in their bold address of previously neglected topics such as the link between cancer and environmental carcinogens, the ethics and efficacy of genetic testing and prophylactic mastectomy, and the shifting politics of prosthesis and reconstruction. ER -