| #848340 in Books | Oxford University Press, USA | 2011-02-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x1.10 x9.40l,1.05 | File Name: 0195170172 | 264 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fabulous Book! Lots of clarity about racial issues in the depiction of cancer.|By Nic Mc|This is really one of my favorite books on cancer. As a breast cancer survivor and blogger, I noticed a few differences within the cancer community when it came to issues of race. This book brought so much clarity and understanding to me about how we got to where we are in the discussion o|From Publishers Weekly|Wailoo (The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine) uses breast cancer as a prism to look at how gender, race, and economic class not only determines the availability of medical treatment but also the way disease is defined. Referencing liter
In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation in cancer awareness, revealing how not only awareness, but cancer prevention, treatment, and survival have all been refracted through the lens of race.
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