WHOSE BREAST IS IT ANYWAY - A FEMINIST CONSIDERATION OF ADVICE AND TREATMENT FOR BREAST-CANCER

In asserting the importance of breast cancer as a feminist issue, the authors look at the treatment of women with breast cancer, both at the hands of the medical profession and within the 'alternative,' self-help movement. The authors argue that both orthodox medicine and 'New Age' healing are harmful to women with breast cancer, and that a feminist approach is badly needed. The authors sketch out some of the characteristics of such a theory and consider how it has informed, and might continue to inform, practice.