The fashioned survivor: Institutionalized representations of women with breast cancer

Communication and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-78

  Ucok, Ozum ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bodily appearance; Breast cancer; Gendered appearance; Representing illness; Visual representation; Visual rhetoric

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34548219515     PISSN: 16121783     EISSN: 16133625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CAM.2007.008     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. ACS (2000). 'tlc', Spring/Summer. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society.
2. Andsager, J. L., Hust, S. J. T., and Powers, A. (2000). Patient-blaming and representation of risk factors in breast cancer images. Women & Health 31 (2/3): 57-79.
3. Bell, S. E. (2002). Photo images: Jo Spence's narratives of living with illness. Health 6 (1): 5-30.
4. Blumberg, R. (1991). Headstrong: A Story of Conquests & Celebrations - Living through Chemotherapy. Shaker Heights, OH: HB Press.
5. Byram, S. and Brodsky, C. (1997). Stephanie. http://www. thestephanieproject.org (accessed January 2001).
6. Carter, T. (2003). Body count: Autobiographies by women living with breast cancer. Journal of Popular Culture 36 (4): 653-668.
7. Cartwright, L. (1998). Community and the public body in breast cancer media activism. Cultural Studies 12 (2): 117-138.
8. Chaplin, E. (1994). Sociology and Visual Representation. London: Routledge.
9. Charmaz, K. (1995). The body, identity, and self: Adapting to impairment. The Sociological Quarterly 36 (4): 657-680.
10. Clifford, C. (1996). Not Now . . . I'm Having a No Hair Day. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
11. Davis, A. (2000). The First Look. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
12. Donnally, T. (1991). Healing power of looking good. San Francisco Chronicle July 10: D3-D5.
13. Gilman, S. L. (1995). Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
14. _(1999). Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
15. Hart, R. (1990). Modern Rhetorical Criticism. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education.
16. Kabat-Zinn, J. and Meili, T. (2004). The power of the human heart: A story of trauma and recovery and its implications for rehabilitation and healing. Advances 20 (1): 6-16.
17. Lorde, A. (1980). The Cancer Journals. Argyle, NY: Spinsters Ink.
18. Myers, A. and Marrocchino, M. (1996). Winged Victory: Altered Images: Transcending Breast Cancer. San Diego, CA: Photographic Gallery of Fine Art.
19. Nelson, J. P. (1996). Struggling to gain meaning: Living with the uncertainty of breast cancer. Advances in Nursing Science 18 (30): 59-76.
20. Pink, S. (2000). Doing Visual Ethnography. London: Sage.
21. Sontag, S. (1978). Illness as Metaphor. New York: Anchor Books.
22. Spence, J. (1988). Putting Myself in the Picture: A Political Personal and Photographic Autobiography. Seattle, WA: The Real Comet Press.
23. Thorne, S. E. and Murray, C. (2000). Social constructions of breast cancer. Health Care for Women International 21: 141-160.
24. Ucok, O. (2002). Transformations of self in surviving breast cancer: An ethnographic study on bodily appearance and self. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, Texas.
25. _(2005). From diagnostic to aesthetic: Moving beyond diagnosis. In Diagnosis as Cultural Practice, D. Kovarsky and J. Duchan (eds.), 65-79. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.