Artworks, collective experience and claims for social justice: the case of women living with breast cancer

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 366-390

  Radley, Alan ^a   Bell, Susan E ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Art; Breast cancer; Photography; Social movements; Social practices; Visual images; Visual sociology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOLOGY; SURVIVOR; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEDICINE IN ART; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34247604452     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00499.x     Document Type: Article

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