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  1. Beyond dichotomies of health and illness: life after breast cancer.Roanne Thomas-MacLean - 2005 - Nursing Inquiry 12 (3):200-209.
    While there has been a vast amount of research on breast cancer in recent years, areas within this domain remain unexplored. For instance, there have been few attempts to marry an understanding of the social context in which breast cancer occurs with an understanding of subjective experiences of this condition. The purpose of this study was to explore women's experiences of embodiment after breast cancer, utilizing a phenomenological approach rooted in a feminist perspective. The focus of this article is upon (...)
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  • Reading Friedan: Toward a Feminist Articulation of Heart Disease.Anne Pollock - 2010 - Body and Society 16 (4):77-97.
    This article uses Betty Friedan’s idiosyncratic invocations of heart disease in her work from the 1960s through the 1990s, as well as her autobiographical comments about it and her theory of the feminine mystique, to grapple with a feminist articulation of heart disease. Although this leading cause of death for women in industrialized countries has been peripheral to feminist health discourse and most women’s preoccupations, heart disease played an interesting narrative role in Friedan’s work and life. Drawing on Friedan’s unconventional (...)
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  • Risking ‘Safety’: Breast Cancer, Prognosis, and the Strategic Enterprise of Life.Nadine Ehlers - 2016 - Journal of Medical Humanities 37 (1):81-94.
    Living in modern biopolitical risk culture might be seen as synonymous with living in prognosis time, in the sense that risk of illness is endlessly forecast (prognosticated) in the broad social arena. ‘Safety,’ in this context, is framed as the anticipatory guarding against risk or disease in order to ‘make live.’ Thinking of risk and safety in these ways is limited, however, in that the prognosis cannot account for the individual’s life or death drama. This paper asks: how are we (...)
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  • Abject Ontologies: Cancer and ‘Living On’.Nadine Ehlers & Shiloh Krupar - 2022 - Journal of Medical Humanities 43 (3):455-466.
    This paper examines cancer through the lens of abjection. While cancer can be understood as an abject lifeform, we explore what we name the abject ontologies created through both cancer detection technologies/practices and cancer treatment, specifically the drug combination Adriamycin and Cytoxan. We ask: what are the abject ontologies produced through living with and living on from cancer diagnosis and treatment? Our concern is to map how cancer undoes our supposedly stable categories inherited from modernist logic, challenges our very ideas (...)
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