The wounded breast : intimate journeys through cancer / / Evelyne Accad

• Autore: Accad Evelyne
• Pubblicazione: North Nelbourne, Vic., : Spinifex Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (546 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1969940092; 362.196994490092
• Soggetto topico: Breast - Cancer - Patients; Breast - Cancer - Treatment; Breast - Cancer - Psychological aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Author's note; PROLOGUE: THE PRICE OF WASTE AND POLLUTION: AN INSIDIOUS MASSACRE; 1 HORMONES AND BREAST CANCER WHY ME?; 2 DEATH OF FATHER HAIR, OIL AND MOURNING; 3 DNA REPORT AND S-PHASE TAKE ME TOWARDS HEALING; 4 CANCERS, DISEASES, SUFFERING ALL ROUND LIFE, DROP BY DROP; 5 LYMPH NODES MY BREAST OFFERED IN SACRIFICE; 6 RADIATION MY BODY LIKE A BATTLEFIELD; 7 BUREAUCRATIC DOCTORS BUT WHO'D WANT TO LIVE ANYWHERE ELSE?; 8 BREAST CANCER IN FRANCE WHY SO HUSHED UP?; 9 A NO-WIN SITUATION CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP IN TUNISIA ; 10 PARIS BREAST BLUES THE FEAR OF RECURRENCE11 BEIRUT, WAR AND CANCER KAHABRA BRINGS KAHABRA; 12 SEARCHING FOR ALTERNATIVES INCOMPREHENSIBLE PAINS; 13 TRAGIC IRONY ONE HEALED; THE OTHER HIT; 14 MY LOVE HAS CANCER FACING UP; 15 MALE HORMONES LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ!; 16 ALL AROUND, YET AGAIN IS THERE AN END?; 17 RECURRENCES MOVE ON: THE EARTH WILL TAKE YOUR SHAPE; EPILOGUE: MEDICINE, DEATH, AND RECOVERY; REFERENCES; OTHER BOOKS BY SPINIFEX
• Sommario/riassunto: A moving journey through the experience of breast cancer, including the different approaches and treatments.
• Titolo autorizzato: The wounded breast
• ISBN: 1-74219-485-0; 1-74219-234-3; 1-74219-232-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821587203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II