Breast Cancer: Society Shapes An Epidemic; Editor: Kasper, Anne S.; Editor: Ferguson, Susan J.; Paperback; Large size

Editor: Kasper, Anne S.; Editor: Ferguson, Susan J.
1st Palgrave pbk. ed; Paperback; Large size
400 pages
Published: February 2002
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 0312294514

Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This is not a book about breast cancer as a biological disease, its diagnosis and treatment, or the latest research to cure it. Rather, it looks at how economics, politics, gender, social class, and race-ethnicity have deeply influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and defined and influenced women's experiences with breast cancer.Provides an innovative look at the social and political contexts of breast cancer and examines how this illness has become a social problem. This text looks at how economics, politics, gender, and other factors have influenced the science behind breast cancer research, spurred the growth of a breast cancer industry, generated media portrayals of women with the disease, and influenced women's experiences with breast cancer.