Pretty Pink Ribbons

Pretty Pink Ribbons
Author: K. L. Grayson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2015-03-21
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9780990795520

Laney Jacobs moves back home to tell the man see loves (and broke his heart) how much he means to her before it's too late.

Pink Ribbons, Inc

Pink Ribbons, Inc
Author: Samantha King
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780816648986

The commercialization of the breast cancer movement is challenged in this analysis of how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship.

Pink Ribbon Blues

Pink Ribbon Blues
Author: Gayle A. Sulik
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0199933995

Explores the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry and analyzes the social impact on women living with breast cancer -- the stereotypes and the stigmas.

Pink Ribbons for April - In Memory of April Jones

Pink Ribbons for April - In Memory of April Jones
Author: Alun Gibbard
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2015-02-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 184771871X

It was a tragedy which shook the world. On 1 October 2012, the disappearance of five-year-old April Jones from the mid Wales town of Machynlleth sparked an almost unprecedented wave of concern. Within Wales the event drew people of all ages and backgrounds in their hundreds to help in the search. Further afield social media websites spread the story worldwide and in turn brought messages of hope and support to those directly involved. It demonstrated a community response on an international scale. Today Mark Bridger is serving a life sentence for the horrific murder of April Jones but this book is not about the details of that extreme act of cruelty, it is about the various acts of kindness from within the town and from far outside it. This is book tells the unfolding narrative of April's story over the twelve months since she was taken from her home and her home town, in the words of the people who live there and with the support of April's family. But more than the telling of the tragic events, it tells the story of how people pull together in extreme circumstances; how in today's technological world, community is not about geography alone. It's about strangers coming together. It is a story about hope and humanity. Proceeds from the book will go to the April Jones Fund. The fund set up to aid the search for the missing five-year-old will be divided between local charities, schools, and search and rescue organisations.

How We Do Harm

How We Do Harm
Author: Otis Webb Brawley, MD
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1429941502

A startling and important exposé on the state of medicine, research, and healthcare today by the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the American Cancer Society How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm. Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of The American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy career. How We Do Harm pulls back the curtain on how medicine is really practiced in America. Brawley tells of doctors who select treatment based on payment they will receive, rather than on demonstrated scientific results; hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that seek out patients to treat even if they are not actually ill (but as long as their insurance will pay); a public primed to swallow the latest pill, no matter the cost; and rising healthcare costs for unnecessary—and often unproven—treatments that we all pay for. Brawley calls for rational healthcare, healthcare drawn from results-based, scientifically justifiable treatments, and not just the peddling of hot new drugs. Brawley's personal history – from a childhood in the gang-ridden streets of black Detroit, to the green hallways of Grady Memorial Hospital, the largest public hospital in the U.S., to the boardrooms of The American Cancer Society—results in a passionate view of medicine and the politics of illness in America - and a deep understanding of healthcare today. How We Do Harm is his well-reasoned manifesto for change.

Radical

Radical
Author: Kate Pickert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780316470346

Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age.

Bright-sided

Bright-sided
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0805087494

Exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking, which the author believes leads to self-blame and a preoccupation with stamping out "negative" thoughts on a personal level, and, on a national level, has brought on economic disaster.

You Can Be Beautiful Beyond Breast Cancer

You Can Be Beautiful Beyond Breast Cancer
Author: Leslie Spencer
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2012
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1841263567

Offers guidelines for implementing a diet and exercise program during and after breast cancer treatment, based on the author's battle with the disease while training for a figure competition.

So Much to Be Done

So Much to Be Done
Author: Barbara Brenner
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452950342

“What kind of cancer is it?” was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His answer: “You don't need to know that.” Wrong response. Brenner, who was already an activist, made knowing her business and spreading knowledge her mission. The power behind Breast Cancer Action and its transformative Think Before You Pink® campaign, Barbara Brenner brought an abundance of wit, courage, and clarity to the cause and forever changed the conversation. What had been construed as an individual crisis could now be seen for what it was: a pressing concern of public health and social justice, with environmental issues at the center of prevention efforts. Collected in So Much to Be Done, and framed by personal accounts of Barbara and her influential work, Brenner’s columns and blog posts form a chronicle of breast cancer research and health care activism that is as inspiring as it is informative. As she takes on the corporate forces at work in breast cancer research and treatment and in the “pinkwashing” of fund-raising for the cause, Brenner, a self-described hell-raiser, contends with cancer herself, twice, and her words offer understanding and encouragement to all those whose lives are touched by the disease. When Brenner was diagnosed with ALS in 2011, she broadened her critique of health care while also writing about her own experience. Infused with her characteristic moxie, humor, anger, and compassion, these reflections from her last two years provide an in-depth, precisely observed portrayal of what it is to live with a terminal disease and to die on one’s own terms.

A Perfect Rhyme

A Perfect Rhyme
Author: Kathryn Gabrielle
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1312963859

This is a collection of poem that I have written over the years. The themes are self esteem, respect, love and happiness. I hope you enjoy reading my poetry as much as I liked writing.