Breast Cancer Inside Out: Bodies, Biographies & Beliefs (Medical Humanities #1)

Breast Cancer Inside Out: Bodies, Biographies & Beliefs (Medical Humanities #1)

Maria Vaccarella (Other), Kimberly Myers (Other), Kimberly Myers (Editor)
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Publication Date: February 19th, 2021
Publisher:
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
ISBN:
9781788747332
Pages:
486

Description

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.

About the Author

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.

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