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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Breast Cancer Diagnoses And Treatment — The Historical Context
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Breast Cancer as a Social Problem
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Women, Their Bodies, and the Illness Experience
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The Politics of Breast Cancer
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Breast Cancer and Social Change
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Reviews
"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
...a very good book... writing is accessible, individual chapters are clear and pointed, and the book succeeds...
-Contemporary Sociology
About the authors
SUSAN J. FERGUSON is Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Breast Cancer
Book Subtitle: Society Shapes an Epidemic
Authors: Anne S. Kasper, Susan J. Ferguson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-03779-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29451-9Published: 26 February 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-03779-4Published: 23 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 388
Topics: Sociology, general, Medical Sociology, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Gender Studies