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• Title:Beyond slash, burn, and poison : transforming breast cancer stories into action / Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Knopf-Newman, Marcy Jane, 1969-
  
• Published/Created:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WP870 .K72 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
  Ford, Betty, 1918-2011.
  Kushner, Rose.
  Lorde, Audre.
  Breast--Cancer--Social aspects--United States.
  Cancer patients' writings, American.
  
• Medical Subjects: Breast Neoplasms--psychology--United States.
  Autobiography--United States.
  Drug Therapy--history--United States.
  Drug Therapy--psychology--United States.
  Mastectomy--history--United States.
  Mastectomy--psychology--United States.
  Patient Rights--United States.
  Social Change--United States.
  
• Description:xxi, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:Drawing on the writings of Rachel Carson, Betty Ford, Rose Kushner, and Audre Lorde, this book explores the various ways in which patient-centered texts continue to leave their mark on the political realm of breast cancer and, ultimately, the disease itself. Ordered chronologically, the selections trace the progression of discussions about breast cancer from a time when the subject was kept private and silent to when it became part of public discourse. The texts included are personal accounts, written by women struggling to play an active role in their healing process and, at the same time, hoping to help others do the same. Knopf-Newman also shows us how these writings eventually changed public opinion and the underlying tendency to blame women for their illness. She argues that changes in medical practice and public policy are linked to textual interventions, and makes a case for the politicization of cultural studies of disease through personal and literary expression. - from publisher description.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
  
• ISBN:0813534704 (hbk.)
  0813534712 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Miss Carson goes to Washington: Rachel Carson's public silence
  Media medical interventions: Betty Ford's public(ity) pedagogy
  Rose Kushner versus the medical establishment: defending a woman's right to choose
  Toward truth and reconciliation: Audre Lorde's revision of breast cancer narratives
  Conclusion: taking action.