Barbara Brenner

So Much to Be Done

The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
Herausgeber: Sjoholm, Barbara

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Produktbeschreibung

A key figure in North American breast cancer history, Barbara Brenner was executive director of the nonprofit organization Breast Cancer Action, based in San Francisco. She died in 2013 at the age of sixty-one. Barbara Sjoholm is an author and translator. She was a cofounder of the feminist publisher Seal Press and an editor of many works of women’s studies. Rachel Morello-Frosch is professor of environmental science, policy, and management at University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the scientific advisory board of Breast Cancer Action. Anne Lamott is the author, most recently, of Small Victories, which includes an essay about Barbara Brenner.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 144mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780816699445
• ISBN-10: 0816699445
• Artikelnr.: 44140008

Autorenporträt

A key figure in North American breast cancer history, Barbara Brenner was executive director of the nonprofit organization Breast Cancer Action, based in San Francisco. She died in 2013 at the age of sixty-one. Barbara Sjoholm is an author and translator. She was a cofounder of the feminist publisher Seal Press and an editor of many works of women’s studies. Rachel Morello-Frosch is professor of environmental science, policy, and management at University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the scientific advisory board of Breast Cancer Action. Anne Lamott is the author, most recently, of Small Victories, which includes an essay about Barbara Brenner.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
A Portrait of Barbara Brenner
Barbara Sjoholm
Introduction: Barbara Brenner, Breast Cancer Action, and the Birth of a
Politicized Breast Cancer Movement
Rachel Morello-Frosch
Part I: Building a Movement, 1996–2010
Hope, Politics, and Living with Breast Cancer (August 1995)
Loss and Inspiration (April 1996)
Let Them Lick Stamps (August-September 1996)
Fiddling While Rome Burns: The Latest Mammogram Controversy (April–May
1997)
Reflections on a Handmaid’s Tale (October–November 1997)
Words Matter (February–March 1998)
My Sister’s Keeper (June–July 1998)
Educate, Agitate, Organize—Now! (August–September 1998)
One Pill Makes You Smaller... (October–November 1998)
Thinking Out Loud: Toward a New Research Strategy (December 1998–January
1999)
Rolling the Dice (April–May 1999)
Respecting the Past, Creating the Future (July–August 2000)
Making Choices (March–April 2001)
Living on the Edge (May–June 2001)
Breast Cancer Treatment: Promise vs. Reality (September–October 2001)
Exercise Your Mind (March–April 2002)
The Crazy Days of Autumn (January 2003)
Lessons from Long Island (November–December 2002)
Waging War, Making Connections (September–October 2003)
Solving the Breast Cancer Puzzle: Advancing the Research Revolution (March
2004)
Forests and Trees: Reflections on Pink Bracelets and Narrow Visions
(March–April 2005)
Fifteen Years of Activism: Standing on Many Shoulders (June 2005)
Era of Hope, Hype or Hoax: Is It Time for Change in the DOD Breast Cancer
Research Program? (August–September 2005)
Meaningful Results: Getting What We Need From Science (August–September
2006)
BCA’s Survey on Aromatase Inhibitors: Meeting the Needs of Patients
(December 2006)
Moving beyond the Personal in Environmental Health (September–October 2007)
Putting Patients First: The Need for Better Standards at the FDA (May 2008)
The Organic Process of Activism: Think Before You Pink, Then and Now
(September 2008)
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: The Present Looks like the Past (Fall 2009)
So Much to Celebrate, So Much to Be Done (Fall 2010)
Part II: Thoughts on Dying and Living, 2011–2013
Don’t Ask Me How I Am (March 4, 2011)
Patient? Who’s Patient? (March 15, 2011)
Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep—Especially in Health (March 23, 2011)
Isn’t It Time to Change the Message? (March 28, 2011)
Uncertainty, a Teaching for Rosh Hashana 5771 (March 31, 2011)
A New Name (April 5, 2011)
Passover (April 17–19, 2011)
There’s That Person with... (April 26, 2011)
The Obligation of Privilege (May 4, 2011)
Can and Can’t List (May 15, 2011)
That’s Why They Call Them “Trials” (May 19, 2011)
People’s Lives as the Endpoints of Medical Research–Now There’s a Nifty
Idea (June 3, 2011)
Understanding Health Numbers: Not Easy, but Important (June 13, 2011)
Having a Voice, Communicating, and Somewhere In Between (June 17, 2011)
Walk for Your Health, but It Won’t Help Anyone Else’s, Much (July 1, 2011)
Thoughts on Dying and Living (July 20, 2011)
How Do You Spell Chutzpah: Komen (July 28, 2011)
Drug Development and Access: Time to Act Like Lives Depend on It (August
18, 2011)
Science by Press Release—Not Good News for Patients (August 26, 2011)
Health Activism—Not for the Faint of Heart (September 8, 2011)
Pink Ribbons and Lou Gehrig: Time to Bury Useless Symbols (September 18,
2011)
Mi’She’Berach: Thoughts on Illness and Blessing (October 10, 2011)
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