This book offers a 360° look at breast cancer from individuals who have intimate understanding of and experience with it: patients, healthcare providers, and researchers and scholars. This book is meant to be a single go-to source for people who want to understand more fully and clearly the lived experience of breast cancer.
This book offers a 360° look at breast cancer from individuals who have intimate understanding of and experience with it: patients who have lived or are living with the disease; healthcare providers whose perspectives patients and families rarely get to know; and researchers and scholars who examine breast cancer through various scientific and cultural lenses. Here you will meet 33 individuals from the UK and US who provide both factual information and personal insights in different forms: historical overview, personal essay, interview, play script, poem, interpersonal vignette, practical guidelines, comic, mixed-media photography exhibit and scholarly analysis.
Breast cancer changes lives. This book is meant to be a single go-to source for people who want to understand more fully and clearly the lived experience of breast cancer – what those who know it best think and do and feel.
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«Ambitious in its forms and disciplinary insights, this is health humanities writing of real value. An accessible, rich and real range of stories tells us what it is like to experience breast cancer. This book is for patients, clinicians and people who live close to this condition and that really means all of us.» (Professor Jane Macnaughton, Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University)
«This is a wonderful collection of essays describing every aspect of breast cancer care, written by patients and the people who treat them. It is full of warmth, empathy and honesty, and will gently guide anyone through a diagnosis of breast cancer.» (Dr. Liz ORiordan, author of The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer)
Contents: A Trajectory of Breast Cancer: Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond
Kimberly R. Myers and Julie A. Mack: When the Patient Knows What the Doctor
Does Not (Yet) Know Mark Stout and Lynn Fantom: A Step-by-Step Guide
through Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Radiation Gordon L. Kauffman, Jr.:
Communion Lisa Katz: Reconstruction John D. Potochny: Gauging Too Much
Information: Discussing a Young Mothers Options for Reconstructive Surgery
Kate Jollie: Flashpoints: Wisdom from the Trenches Kevin B. Knopf: Another
Catcher in the Rye: Oncology Care at the County Hospital David Carnish:
Reflections on Solidarity Ian R. Ross: When Chaos Comes: The Role of a
Hospitalist Eliana V. Hempel: Best-Laid Plans: When Follow-Up Fails
Jeffrey M. Kowaleski: Always on Your Side: What All Patients Should Know
about Palliative Care George R. Simms: How Hospice Can Heal Mark L.
Hunnicutt: A Steward of Suffering: One Mans Story of Breast Cancer
Enhancing Your Health by Honoring Your Self Michael Hayes: Our Many
Teachers: Wisdom for Psychological Health during Breast Cancer Debra Rex
George and Daniel R. George: All You Need Is Love and Research: A
Mother-Son Team Navigate a Non-Aggressive Approach to Breast Cancer Kathryn
H. Schmitz: I Promise You Will Feel Better: The Importance of Exercising
During and After Cancer Treatment Elizabeth Reid: Food as Medicine: How to
Eat During and After Treatment for Breast Cancer Amy Holiday: A Future on
Ice Elva J. Winter: Intimacy and Sexuality in the Context of Breast Cancer
Shaping Cancer, (Re)Shaping Self Deborah Bowman: On Being Constant and
Changed: Breast Cancer in Six Acts Johanna Shapiro: Womens Breast Cancer
Poetry: Voice, Identity, Contingency and Death Jennifer Hayden: Under the
Birdcage Kimberly R. Myers: Breast Cancer Comics in the Classroom and the
Clinic Rachel OConnor: A Curators Interpretation of Edges of Light
Kimberly R. Myers and Wendy Palmer: Edges of Light: Images of Breast
Transformation Lisa Katz: The Form Breast Cancer over Time: Evolutions in
Understandings, Representations, Tools and Treatments Siobhan Conaty:
Milestones in the Depiction of Breasts and Breast Cancer in Art History
Lisa Katz: Breast Art Michael Baum: An Historical Overview of Breast Cancer
and Its Treatments Henry Wagner: Radiation Therapy: Evolutions in
Treatment, Consultations in Clinic Michael Baum: Understanding How Cancer
Behaves: Implications for Paradigm Shifts in Treatment Maria J. Baker:
Genetic Counseling and Testing for Hereditary Breast Cancer: A Genetic
Counselors Perspective Victoria ODonnell: The Marketing of Metastatic
Breast Cancer: A Cultural Analysis of the Ibrance Commercial Ariane B.
Anderson: The New Normal: Metastatic Breast Cancer Experiences of Survivor
Identity Lisa Katz: Support Group.
Kimberly R. Myers, M.A., Ph.D., is Professor of Humanities and Medicine and Distinguished Educator at Penn State College of Medicine, and Program Director of Schwartz Center Rounds for the Penn State Cancer Institute. Dr. Myers scholarship focuses on sociocultural dimensions of illness, illness narratives, medical education and graphic medicine, and she has published in professional journals including Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Annals of Internal Medicine, Literature and Medicine and Academic Medicine as well as lay periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Atlantic. She is author or editor of six books.
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