The voice of breast cancer in medicine and bioethics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rawlinson, Mary C. (Editor), Lundeen, Shannon (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Ethics.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Oncology.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Medicine & Public Health.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Cancer Research.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Gender Studies.

Few diseases have made more difference to our understanding of illness, the relation of the patient to the physician and other health care professionals, and the social context of disease than breast cancer. Breast cancer activism has provided a model of public policy advocacy for women, as well as...