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Breast Cancer:

Society Shapes an Epidemic
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Anne S. Kasper, Susan J. Ferguson
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Palgrave Macmillan, Jan 11, 2002 - Family & Relationships - 388 pages
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.

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NEJM -- Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic
Kasper, as, Ferguson, sj, Spiegel, D. (2001). Review of Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic. NEJM 345: 841-842 [Full Text] ...
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Rebecca Lovell Scott - Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic ...
Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic edited by Anne S. Kasper and Susan J. Ferguson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000, 388 pp., $27.95 hardcover. ...
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JSTOR: Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic
Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic, edited by Anne S. Kasper and Susan J. Ferguson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 388 pp. $27.95 cloth. ...
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More than just a timeline, BREAST CANCER: Society Shapes an Epidemic is a fascinating look at how the social and political fervor behind breast cancer ...
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Eisenstein and the authors in Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic cover much the same ground, but with different vehicles and tones. ...
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Salon.com Health | The business of breast cancer
10, 2000 | After reading "Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic," my heart went out to those hundreds of thousands of women who walk or run to raise ...
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Kasper, as & Ferguson, sj in Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic (eds Kasper, as & Ferguson, sj) 355–373 (St Martin's Press, New York, 2000). ...
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About the author (2002)

Anne S. Kasper is Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Susan J. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College.

Bibliographic information

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TitleBreast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic
EditorsAnne S. Kasper, Susan J. Ferguson
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan, 2002
ISBN0312294514, 9780312294519
Length388 pages
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Family & Relationships / General
Medical / Health Care Delivery
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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