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"Doleful ditties" and Stories of Survival - Narrative Approaches to Breast Cancer in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth and Susan Sontag
From: Gender Forum
Date: 20070101
Author:Hartung, Heike
1 In a recent collection of critical essays on The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics (2006), Susan Sherwin illustrates the contradictory perspectives on breast cancer in American society by drawing up an extensive list of "common thinking" about the disease, which she supplements with the critical alternatives less widely shared. Here are a few examples from her list:
- Breast cancer is curable if detected early. Breast cancer can be lethal no matter when it is diagnosed (Lerner 2000, 2001).
- Breast cancer is primarily genetic. Breast cancer is primarily environmental (Rothman ...
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