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This 5 page paper considers several different aspects of breast cancer in women, including the social significance of the disease and how societal constructs have shaped the treatments used. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Because the subject is so vast, the four sources all address different aspects of it, in an attempt to provide something of an overview. The first article talks about the
social implications of breast cancer, and what having the disease means in terms of reactions of both patients and society. Today, a diagnosis of breast cancer seems to change a
woman from a patient into an advocate, whether she wants the job or not (Thorne and Murray, 2000). Everyone seems to have something to say about the illness, and what
her reaction should be and the advice is often mutually exclusive (Thorne and Murray, 2000). If she has a breast removed, she will be urged to get a prosthetic device
immediately; her husband or male partner "may experience a peculiar form of sympathy from colleagues and friends," probably something to the effect that it is a shame for him to
have to deal with a woman who is now somehow less than a woman (Thorne and Murray, 2000, p. 142). Friends and relatives may be more concerned about her appearance
than the fact that shes battling a life-threatening illness, and health care professionals may go so far as to suggest that she become "uninhibited in her sexual expression, regardless of
her prior inclinations" (Thorne and Murray, 2000, p. 142). She will probably be kept informed as to all the new gene therapies, whether or not there is any indication of
a hereditary component to her disease, and she may even be approached as encouraged to become an activist and speak out for breast cancer and the causes that surround it
(Thorne and Murray, 2000). No other disease is handled in quite this way, and the reason for this skewed approach appears to be the intense focus on women as sexual
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