基本説明
Looks at how economics, politics, gender, social class and race-ethnicity have deeply influenced the women with the disease.
Full Description
Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This is not a book about breast cancer as a biological disease, its diagnosis and treatment, or the latest research to cure it. Rather, it looks at how economics, politics, gender, social class, and race-ethnicity have deeply influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and defined and influenced women s experiences with breast cancer. The contributors address the social construction of breast cancer as an illness and as an area of scientific controversy, advocacy, and public policy. Chapters on the history of breast cancer, the health care system, the environment, and the marketing of breast cancer, among others, tease apart the complex social forces that have shaped our collective and individual responses to breast cancer.
Contents
Foreword' Dr S.Love INTRODUCTION Living with Breast Cancer; S.J.Ferguson & A.S.Kasper PART I: BREAST CANCER: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT Inventing a Curable Disease: Historical Perspectives on Breast Cancer; B.H.Lerner Deformities and Diseased: The Medicalization of Women's Breasts; S.J.Ferguson PART II: BREAST CANCER AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM A. The Economics of Breast Cancer Breast Cancer and the Evolving Health Care System; ER.Shaffer Profits from Pain: The Political Economy of Breast Cancer; J.S.Zones B. Women, Their Bodies, and the Illness Experience Women's Experience of Breast Cancer; M.E.Rosenbaum & G.M Roos Barriers and Burdens: Poor Women Face Breast Cancer; A.S.Kasper C. The Politics of Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Policymaking; C.SWeisman Controversies in Breast Cancer Research; S.V.Rosser The Environmental Link to Breast Cancer; S.Steingraber PART III: BREAST CANCER AND SOCIAL CHANGE Breast Cancer in Popular Women's Magazines from 1913-1996; J.R.Fosket, C.LaFie & A.Karran Sister Support: Women Create a Breast Cancer Movement; B.A. Brenner CONCLUSION Eliminating Breast Cancer from Our Future; A.S.Kasper & S.J.Ferguson
