Women Confront Cancer: Twenty-One Leaders Making Medical History by Choosing Alternative and Complementary Therapies
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Women Confront Cancer: Twenty-One Leaders Making Medical History by Choosing Alternative and Complementary Therapies
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Overview
For the first time, Women Confront Cancer unites the voices of women leaders who have breast, cervical, ovarian, and other cancers. Documenting the decision process, the choices, and the dilemmas these women faced as they chose alternative and complementary cancer treatments, a powerful unity emerges, pointing the way to the future of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer by less toxic methods. Ann Frahm, the author of A Cancer Battle Plan, Susan Moss, the author of Keep Your Breasts, and Cathy Hitchcock, coauthor of Breast Cancer, are only three of the leaders who relate their personal experiences with cancer. All of the women featured in Women Confront Cancer share how and why they created treatment programs that combine the best of conventional and unconventional approaches, and how it has improved their health and their lives.
A call for patients' rights, for policy reform in cancer research, for better information about both conventional and alternative medicine, Women Confront Cancer will be both a source of inspiration for women who have cancer and an aid for them in creating their own approach to healing.
* Did you know that October is [ NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH ] and pink is the color that symbolizes breast cancer awareness?
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814735862 |
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| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Publication date: | 10/01/1998 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d) |
About the Author
David J. Hess is Professor of Anthropology in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His books include Science Studies: An Advanced Introduction (also available from NYU Press), Science in the New Age and Science and Technology in a Multicultural World.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Barbara Joseph, MDIntroduction1]Patient No More / Sharon Batt
2]The Growing Lymhepdema Epidemic / Gayle Black
3]Giving Your Program 100 Percent / Alice Cedillo
4]A Mother Battles the FDA for Medical Freedom / Kimberley Eckley
5]Using Visualization and Fantasy for Healing / ALice Hopper Epstein
6]Diet, Faith, and the Manner Protocol / Pat Fogderund
7]On Becoming a Cancer Activist / Ann Fonfa
8]Maintaining Hope After the Doctors Give Up / Anne Frahm
9]Saying No to a Mastectomy--Twenty-five Years Ago / Myrna Gene
10]Overcoming Cancer with Diet / Louise Greenfield
11]What Your Doctor May Not Tell You / Cathy Hitchcock
12]Confronting ""National Breast Policy"" / Susan Holloran
13]A Doctor Combines Chemo and Macrobiotics / Barbara Joseph
14]The Wake-Up Call From Your Body / Dixie Keithly
15]Everything Counts / Teresa Kennett
16]Cancer as a Spiritual Voyage / Charlotte Louise
17]A Chemist on Grapes, Nutrition, and the Bible / Matilda Moore
18]THe Marathon Olympic Tumor Eradication and Prevention Program / Susan Moss
19]Going to Mexico to Regain Medical Choice / Pat Prince
20]A Journey from the Personal to the Political / Virginia Soffa
21]Healing Through Personal Power / Melanie Zucker
What People are Saying About This
An outstanding contribution to the international debate over breast cancer. Women Confront Cancer not only focuses on exciting new non-conventional treatment options, but allows outspoken women cancer patients to describe their experiences and ordeals in their own words. A landmard in the struggle for patient autonomy.
— Ralph Moss, Ph.D., author of The Cancer Industry
Without telling us what we ought to do, these women make it clear what we can do: Remember that miracles do occur and that no one, not even orthodox medicine, has all the answers. (Susun S. Weed, author of Breast Cancer? Breast Health!, The Wise Woman Way.)
"An outstanding contribution to the international debate over breast cancer. Women Confront Cancer not only focuses on exciting new non-conventional treatment options, but allows outspoken women cancer patients to describe their experiences and ordeals in their own words. A landmard in the struggle for patient autonomy."
-Ralph Moss, Ph.D.,author of The Cancer Industry
"Without telling us what we ought to do, these women make it clear what we can do: Remember that miracles do occur and that no one, not even orthodox medicine, has all the answers."
-Susun S. Weed,author of Breast Cancer? Breast Health!, The Wise Woman Way
"Women Confront Cancer offers more than case stories of hope triumphing over despair, more than options, alternatives and resources. Its message about individuality, empowerment and leadership makes it must reading for every woman diagnosed with cancer. Its quiet demand for medical freedom of choice and for a patient-driven shift in oncologic policy should be heard by every professional in the cancer field. If ever there was a time for this book, it is now."
-Susan Silberstein, Ph.D.,Executive Director of the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education
Women Confront Cancer offers more than case stories of hope triumphing over despair, more than options, alternatives and resources. Its message about individuality, empowerment and leadership makes it must reading for every woman diagnosed with cancer. Its quiet demand for medical freedom of choice and for a patient-driven shift in oncologic policy should be heard by every professional in the cancer field. If ever there was a time for this book, it is now."
— Susan Silberstein, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Center for Advancement in Cancer
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