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Author_Julia A. Ericksen
breast cancer
breast cancer activism
breast cancer education
breast cancer support
breast cancer survivor
breast surgery
cancer
cancer activism
cancer recovery
cancer treatment
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cultural studies
diagnosis
disease
doctors
doctors orders
dying
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ethnography
faith
gender studies
illness
medicine
micro sociology
patients and doctors
personal experience
personal illness
politics
sexuality
sociology
treatment
women
women and cancer
Product details
- ISBN 9780520252929
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Vividly showcasing diverse voices and experiences, this book illuminates an all-too-common experience by exploring how women respond to a diagnosis of breast cancer. Drawing from interviews in which women describe their journeys from diagnosis through treatment and recovery, Julia A. Ericksen explores topics ranging from women's trust in their doctors to their feelings about appearance and sexuality. She includes the experiences of women who do not put their faith in traditional medicine as well as those who do, and she takes a look at the long-term consequences of this disease.What emerges from her powerful and often moving account is a compelling picture of how cultural messages about breast cancer shape women's ideas about their illness, how breast cancer affects their relationships with friends and family, why some of them become activists, and more. Ericksen, herself a breast cancer survivor, has written an accessible book that reveals much about the ways in which we narrate our illnesses and about how these narratives shape the paths we travel once diagnosed.
Julia A. Ericksen is Professor of Sociology at Temple University and author, with Sally Steffen, of Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century.
