Product Description: Once a synonym for death, cancer is now a prognosis of multiple probabilities and produces a world of uncertainty for carers. Drawing on rich, in-depth interview data and employing interactionist theories, Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving explores carers' lived experiences, paying close attention to the ways in which spouse carers manage the ambiguity that pervades their orientations to the future, their responsibilities and their emotions...read more

Product Description: Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable populations obtain care, and the political geography of blame associated with this disease...read more

Authored by one of the most influential and highly-regarded voices of Chicano history and ethnic studies, Occupied America is the most definitive introduction to Chicano history.  This comprehensive overview of Chicano history is passionately written and extensively researched.  With a concise and engaged narrative, and timelines that give students a context for pivotal events in Chicano history, Occupied America illuminates the struggles and decisions that frame Chicano identity today. 

Product Description: Cancer has been the driving force behind innumerable studies, leading to the discovery of oncogenes (or cancer-causing genes) and helping us understand the inner world of the cell. This knowledge has not only provided us with the ammunition we need to fight cancer, it has also paved the way for many powerful therapies that will someday rid the world of other noxious diseases, including AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and the infirmities that strike us as we grow old...read more

Product Description: The World Health Organization (WHO) reported more than 7 million deaths from cancer― 2.5 percent of all deaths―in 2005. Each year there are approximately 11 million new cases, and WHO expects that the number will double by 2020...read more

Presents a series of narrative essays from a variety of viewpoints, discussing the personal experiences of people who were diagnosed with cancer and family and friends of cancer patients.

Product Description: "The Handbook of Communication and Cancer Care" is a major new compendium of state-of-the-art readings concerning the powerful influences of human and mediated communication to enable health care consumers and providers to get the most out of cancer care...read more

Essays cover varying viewpoints surrounding cancer, including whether or not secondhand smoke, prolonged sun exposure, and sexually transmitted diseases increase the risk of cancer.

Product Description: Guides you through the cancer continuum, providing you with perspectives on a range of psychological and physiological issues from diagnosis to end-of-life care.

Product Description: ...addresses the range of psychosocial issues that confront cancer patients and their families...investigates the unique role of nursing in helping patients and families cope with the disease.

Product Description: The prevention, detection and treatment of cancer has received enormous scientific and clinical attention in the US and in other developed countries. However, there has been no comprehensive review of the racial/ethnic disparities in cancer among elders, nor the opportunities for cancer prevention within the Medicare population...read more

Product Description: Cancer has been the driving force behind innumerable studies, leading to the discovery of oncogenes (or cancer-causing genes) and helping us understand the inner world of the cell. This knowledge has not only provided us with the ammunition we need to fight cancer, it has also paved the way for many powerful therapies that will someday rid the world of other noxious diseases, including AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and the infirmities that strike us as we grow old...read more

Product Description: According to the publicity of cancer, we are at last emerging from the time when the disease was surrounded by the unhealthy silence of denial. Stewart Justman is less certain about our so-called progress. A cancer patient himself, in Seeds of Mortality he separates the experience of cancer from the publicity and disputes the liberation rhetoric that has somehow established itself in the cancer world...read more

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The field of psychosocial oncology is a rapidly expanding area, and much has been written about how the cancer patient deals with the disease. However, there is little or no literature about the impact of cancer on the family system. This book examines the multi-faceted effects a cancer diagnosis has on family life, including its structure, interpersonal relationships, and dynamics. It further considers family's various roles within the process of short-or long-term illness, remission, separation, and death. (view table of contents)

Uses a ten-year study of cancer survivors to examine how class, race, sex, psychological state, type of health care, and available treatment affect one's chances of surviving cancer

Product Description: Examining methodological and conceptual issues as well as specific quality of life issues in cancer treatment and management, this guide presents interpretations of quality of life strategies and includes patient perspectives. This second edition includes a new chapter on spirituality, as well as u...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: There is clear evidence from industrialized and less-developed societies that cancer incidence and survival are related to socioeconomic factors. This fascinating volume, the first to examine the magnitude of these socioeconomic differences in relation to cancer, provides vital information for all those interested in the relationship between public health and oncology...read more

Stories of cancer are full of monster and marvels; the monstrousness of the disease and the treatments, the marvels of the cures and the saved lives. Still one of the most dreaded diseases to haunt our imaginations, cancer is more than an illness - it is a cultural phenomenon. People who have cancer are bombarded with competing explanations of their conditions: it is genetically inherited; it is environmentally produced; it is the result of their personality. Teratologies - A Cultural Study of Cancer investigates how this disease is perceived, experienced and theorised in contemporary society. It explores changing beliefs about the causes of, and the cures for, cancer in both biomedicine and its increasingly popular alternative counterparts.Analysing conventional and alternative medical accounts, self-help manuals and patients' personal stories, Jackie Stacey takes a critical look at the place of heroes, metaphors, the self and the body in these competing bids to produce the authoritative definition of the meaning of cancer today. Interspersed with these detailed textual investigations are discussions of broader issues such as the feminist debates about the history of science, the place of consumer culture in health practices and the status of patients and of health professionals in postmodern society.Combining authobiographical narratives with contemporary theoretical debates, the author carves out a specifically feminist analysis of the cultural dimensions of cancer. She brings accounts of her own illness under the critical lens of academic scrutiny and situates these personal stories within a discussion of contemporary cultural change. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Psychosocial Resource Variables in Cancer Studies reviews the literature on selected psychosocial resource variables in cancer in order to raise and examine conceptual and methodological issues and to offer suggestions for future directions in the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for information, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. There are two main reasons why such an initiative was considered necessary...read more

Product Description: Is the cancer patient an object of job discrimination? Are the discriminatory claims of AIDS patients and patients of other chronic diseases accurate? According to this book the question is a moot one for its occurrence is an inevitable consequence of our social system and the characteristics of the disease...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)