Breast Cancer Inside Out

Kimberly Myers

ISBN 10: 1800796803 / ISBN 13: 9781800796805

Edité par Peter Lang Okt 2021, 2021

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Neuware -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. 500 pp. Englisch.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9781800796805

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Breast Cancer Inside Out
• Éditeur: Peter Lang Okt 2021
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1800796803
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781800796805
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 27 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 27 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 717 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

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.