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Mammographies : The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives /

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While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. This book looks specifically at breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, a category the author refers to as mammographies, si...

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Hlavní autor: DeShazer, Mary K. (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Edice:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Témata:
Transcultural medical care.
Breast > Radiography.
Breast > Imaging.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
MEDICAL > Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.
Attitudes à l'egard de la sante.
Ethnologie.
Études transculturelles.
Imagerie pour le diagnostic.
Services transculturels de sante.
Sein > Imagerie > Études transculturelles.
Mammographie > Études transculturelles.
Symbolism
Patients > psychology
Mammography > psychology
Body Image
Attitude to Health
Breast Neoplasms > psychology
Ethnology
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Diagnostic Imaging
Mammography
Health attitudes.
Ethnology.
Cross-cultural studies.
Diagnostic imaging.
Ethnicity > Health aspects.
Breast > Imaging > Cross-cultural studies.
Breast > Radiography > Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
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Obsah:
  • Introduction : representing breast cancer in the twenty-first century
  • Post-millennial breast cancer photo-narratives : technologized terrain
  • Audre Lorde's successors : breast cancer narratives as feminist theory
  • Narratives of prophylactic mastectomy : mapping the breast cancer gene
  • Rebellious humor in breast cancer narratives : deflating the culture of optimism
  • New directions in breast cancer photography : documenting women's post-operative bodies
  • Cancer narratives and an ethics of commemoration : Susan Sontag, Annie Leibovitz, and David Rieff
  • Bodies, witness, mourning : reading breast cancer autothanatography
  • Afterword : What remains
  • Appendix : Links to selected breast cancer websites and blogs.

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