Taking charge of breast cancer /

Taking charge of breast cancer /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ericksen, Julia A., 1941-
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 319 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Interviews. Breast -- Cancer -- Psychological aspects. Breast Neoplasms -- psychology. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. Breast -- Cancer -- Patients. Breast -- Cancer -- Psychological aspects. Electronic books. Electronic books. Interviews.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11172305

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ISBN:	9780520941182 0520941187 1281385670 9781281385673 9780520252912 0520252918 9780520252929 0520252926
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-306) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Ericksen, Julia A., 1941- Taking charge of breast cancer. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008 9780520252912 0520252918
Standard no.:	9786611385675

Table of Contents:

Telling stories
Following the doctors' orders
Patients and doctors as partners
Faith in the ultimate authority
Opposing the mainstream
The assault on the breast
Bodies after cancer
Breast cancer activism, education, and support.