商品簡介
Fourteen academics, researchers, and activists examine the social meaning of illness, the ways that social forces such as gender, politics, economics, social class, and race-ethnicity have shaped our individual and collective knowledge and response to this illness, and the role these forces have played in breast cancer's reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. The essays critically assess scientific research, breast cancer policymaking, the media, environmental factors, and the changing health care system, and their effects on breast cancer. They also look at the historical roots of the disease, the contemporary breast cancer movement, and ways in which the social views of women in American society have effected how women experience and understand the illness. Academic, but accessible to the general reader. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Anne S. Kasper is Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Susan J. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College.