The Breast Is History An Intimate Memoir Of Breast Cancer
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Author | : Bronwyn Hope |
Publisher | : CCB Publishing |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2015-05-27 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 177143189X |
In 2011 writer and mother of two, Bronwyn Hope is diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. Encouraged by a friend, she begins an online blog in which she faithfully diarises the days that follow, graphically chronicling the details of even her darkest days as they happen. Her reflections are controlled yet raw and immediate, comprising a mix of honesty and humor that will have you by turns laughing out loud, or crying. Over an 18-month period, Bronwyn propels her readers on a journey that will deliver to her some of life’s greatest blows and most uplifting moments. Along the way she shares intimate accounts of her life, her family and friends, and the challenges, both common and uncommon, of a breast cancer survivor. The Breast is History is that rare book that will delight and move readers at the same time as demystifying the experience of millions of women with breast cancer.
Author | : Bronwyn K. Hope |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-11-27 |
Genre | : Breast |
ISBN | : 9781495361258 |
In 2011 writer and mother of two, Bronwyn Hope is diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. Encouraged by a friend, she begins an online blog in which she faithfully diarises the days that follow, graphically chronicling the details of even her darkest days as they happen. Her reflections are controlled yet raw and immediate, comprising a mix of honesty and humor that will have you by turns laughing out loud, or crying. Over an 18-month period, Bronwyn propels her readers on a journey that will deliver to her some of life's greatest blows and most uplifting moments. Along the way she shares intimate accounts of her life, her family and friends, and the challenges, both common and uncommon, of a breast cancer survivor. 'The Breast is History' is that rare book that will delight and move readers at the same time as demystifying the experience of millions of women with breast cancer.
Author | : Ellen Leopold |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2000-10-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780807065136 |
The first cultural history of breast cancer, this book examines the social attitudes and medical treatments that together defined the modern relationship between women with the disease and their doctors. At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences-one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the radical mastectomy, and the other between Rachel Carson, who was writing Silent Spring as she was battling breast cancer, and her personal physician George Crile, Jr.
Author | : Joan Lunden |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2015-09-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062404113 |
In this brave and deeply personal memoir, one of America’s most beloved journalists, mother, and New York Times bestselling author speaks candidly about her battle against breast cancer, her quest to learn about it and teach others, and the transformative effect it’s had on her life. When former Good Morning America host Joan Lunden was diagnosed with breast cancer, she set out to learn everything about it to help her survive. With seven children counting on her, giving up was not an option. After announcing her diagnosis on Good Morning America, people all over the country rallied around Joan as she went into Warrior mode. Within a few months, after losing her hair, Joan appeared on the cover of People magazine bald, showing the world she could, and would, beat the disease. Determined to remain upbeat—to look in the mirror with a brave face—her resolve empowered women everywhere. The Today show quickly recruited Joan as a special correspondent and continues to follow her progress. A deeply personal and powerful story of pain, persistence, and perseverance, Had I Known is a chronicle of Joan’s experience and the plan she formulated and followed to battle with her disease and treatment. As Joan reveals, while her journey was not easy, it profoundly changed her in unexpected ways. Her odyssey helped Joan redefine herself, her values, and most of all, her health. Following a new clean way of eating, Joan lost thirty pounds, became more aware of the food she was eating, and avoided many of the debilitating side effects of chemotherapy. Dealing with the cancer also changed her perception of true beauty. Being attractive isn’t about the hair on your head—it’s about the strength and character you bring to everything you do. Positive yet down-to-earth, told with piercing honesty leavened with warmth and humor, Had I Known offers unforgettable, inspirational lessons for us all.
Author | : Britt Hockman |
Publisher | : Book Venture Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2016-10-15 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1945960361 |
The History of a Boob: One Breast Cancer Story is an Autobiography of a right breast that after having served the writer’s body well for many years develops breast cancer at 43 years of age. That breast cancer diagnosis quickly changed that coveted designation. What follows is a comedy and tragedy of medical and personal errors. But it is life and life is a series of trade-offs well-chronicled in the book.
Author | : Kimberly Rena Myers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781788747349 |
"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"--
Author | : Kate Pickert |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Spark |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0316470333 |
In this "powerful and unflinching page-turner" (New York Times), a healthcare journalist examines the science, history, and culture of breast cancer. As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well -- but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at the age of 35. As she underwent more than a year of treatment, Pickert realized that the popular understanding of breast care in America bears little resemblance to the experiences of today's patients and the rapidly changing science designed to save their lives. After using her journalistic skills to navigate her own care, Pickert embarked on a quest to understand the cultural, scientific and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age. Breast cancer is one of history's most prolific killers. Despite billions spent on research and treatments, it remains one of the deadliest diseases facing women today. From the forests of the Pacific Northwest to an operating suite in Los Angeles to the epicenter of pink-ribbon advocacy in Dallas, Pickert reports on the turning points and people responsible for the progress that has been made against breast cancer and documents the challenges of defeating a disease that strikes one in eight American women and has helped shape the country's medical culture. Drawing on interviews with doctors, economists, researchers, advocates and patients, as well as on journal entries and recordings collected over the author's treatment, Radical puts the story of breast cancer into context, and shows how modern treatments represent a long overdue shift in the way doctors approach cancer -- and disease -- itself.
Author | : Florence Williams |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2012-05-07 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0393063186 |
An engaging narrative about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate.
Author | : Zillah R. Eisenstein |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780801487071 |
A breast cancer survivor shares her own family history with breast cancer, providing a feminist assessment of the causes, politics, and economics of breast cancer. Explored are such factors as carcinogens and the environment, racial components, domination of the medical field by corporate interests, the issue of breast reconstruction, and other topics. c. Book News Inc.
Author | : James S. Olson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2005-02-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0801880645 |
Documents the celebrated 1967 article by an Italian surgeon who concluded that Rembrandt's model and mistress, Hendrickje Stoffels, died of breast cancer, and continues with a narrative history of the disease, its treatments, and several of its noteworthy patients.