Documenting Women’s Postoperative Bodies: Knowing Stephanie and “Remembering Stephanie” as Collaborative Cancer Narratives

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 445-454

  DeShazer, Mary K ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artistic collaboration; Breast cancer narratives; Memorial photography; Productive looking; Visual culture

Indexed keywords

BODY IMAGE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; ESTHETICS; ETHICS; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRENDS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WRITING;

BODY IMAGE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; NARRATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING;

EID: 84918557405     PISSN: 11767529     EISSN: 18724353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11673-014-9582-8     Document Type: Article

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