The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics

INTRODUCTION. Negotiating Personal and Political Settlements in Breast Cancer: Women Finding Their Own Ways to Live with Human Contingency; R. Tong. PART 1: DISCOURSES OF BREAST CANCER: WHO SPEAKS FOR BREAST CANCER? 1. Personalizing the Political: Negotiating the Feminist, Medical, Scientific, and Commercial Discourses Surrounding Breast Cancer; S. Sherwin. 2. Power, Gender, and Pizzazz:The Early Years of Breast Cancer Activism; Barron Lerner 3. Breast Cancer: Dueling Discourses and the Persistence of an Outmoded Paradigm; G. Gertz. 4. Doing Things with Ideas and Affects in the Illness Narratives of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; L. Diedrich. PART 2: NARRATIVES OF BREAST CANCER: LIVING WITH DISEASE. 5. The Breast Cancer Diaries; A. Ho. 6. Breast Cancer: The Maternal Body Reflected in a Three-way Mirror; D. Gold. 7. Learn to Love What’s Left—Poems of Breast Cancer; L. Kendrick. 8. Death and the Other: Rethinking Authenticity; G. Weiss. PART 3: BREAST CANCER AS A MODEL IN CLINICAL RESEARCH. 9. Breast Cancer Research: A Political Cause and Paradigm for Scientific Inquiry; J.S. Kovach. 10. Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer and Informed Consent: How Women Helped Make Research a Cooperative Venture; L.M. Kopelman. 11. The Role of Psychosocial Research in Understanding and Improving the Experience of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Risk; A. Moyer, M. Lobel. PART 4: BREAST CANCER IN THE CLASSROOM. 12. Teaching about Breast Cancer and 'Common Health'; H.R. Lemay. 13. Theoretical Considerations on 'Reading' the Breast; T. Emin-Tunc. 14. Recent Developments in Breast Cancer Research; S. Maslyanskaya.