By Director Rosemarie Tong, Professor Susan Sherwin Ph.D., FRSC (auth.), Mary C. Rawlinson, Shannon Lundeen (eds.)
Few ailments have made extra distinction to our figuring out of sickness, the relation of the sufferer to the doctor and different well-being care pros, and the social context of sickness than breast melanoma. Breast melanoma activism has supplied a version of public coverage advocacy for ladies, in addition to for victims from different illnesses, or even in factors unrelated to overall healthiness. in lots of methods it has develop into emblematic of matters in women’s health.
This quantity deals a discursive research of breast melanoma. From a number of perspectives—historical, philosophical, mental, socio-political—these essays discover the competing narratives that experience made breast melanoma a contested website. It addresses debates concerning the autonomy of the sufferer on the subject of the authority of the health professional, in addition to the significance of sufferer narratives in realizing sickness. It analyzes the relation among the group and clinical perform, rather in regards to the influence of breast melanoma activists and feminists at the clinical knowing and remedy of breast melanoma. And, it questions the intersection of scientific technological know-how with political associations and organisations of public coverage in picking out priorities of study and techniques of therapy.
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These are important elements of a program to eliminate gender violence, but they are nowhere near sufficient to eradicate the problem. Similarly, as long as the focus remains on fighting breast cancer woman by woman, it is difficult to generate the political organization necessary to challenge the forces that may contribute to some instances of the disease by poisoning our environment, our food, or even the prescription drugs we take for other concerns (Steingraber 1998; Eisenstein 2001; Sharpe et al.
Reflecting on how she had stood up to her physicians, she wrote, “I think what I did was the highest level of women’s liberation. I said ‘No’ to a group of doctors who told me ‘You must sign this paper, you don’t have to know what it’s all about’” (Klemesrud 1972, 56). Central to Rosmond’s credo was the importance of finding physicians who would listen to and respect their patients. Rosmond’s writings briefly made her a media celebrity. She appeared on the Today and David Susskind shows, where she debated a series of physicians.
Today, clinicians fully expect breast cancer patients to get second opinions, search the Internet, and read articles about the disease in women’s magazines and on the Internet. But it was less than thirty years ago that such behavior was unexpected and even resented. How did such a change occur? This paper will examine the rise of modern breast cancer activism in the 1970s. In this decade, large numbers of women challenged the authority of the medical profession for the first time. Their efforts were intimately related to feminism, reflecting a larger call for women’s rights throughout American society.