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“On day one of the Trump Administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare. However, it is not enough to simply repeal this terrible legislation. We will work with Congress to make sure we have a series of reforms ready for implementation that follow free market . . . → Read More: Trumping the Affordable Care Act 
Death is certain. Time of death is not. But in Hospital Land USA, the other S&M (Science and Medicine) as Wendy Simonds calls it, death is a failure, something to be suspended and avoided at whatever cost. And there is no safe word. The surreal ordinariness of it all – from appointments and forms to . . . → Read More: Book Review: Hospital Land USA 
Read in PDF » The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has increasingly used an accelerated pathway to speed up the conditional approval of drugs that treat serious medical conditions and fill an unmet need. Provisional approval hinges upon two major factors: (1) surrogate endpoints (i.e., markers of effectiveness such as a decrease . . . → Read More: Research Brief: Quality of Life, Overall Survival, and Costs of Cancer Drugs Approved Based on Surrogate Endpoints 
“In a commercial social movement, activists work cooperatively with industry rather than contentiously against it; they employ market mechanisms like cause marketing and corporate-sponsored runs rather than defiant protests or marches. Necessarily conservative… it is a continuation of rather than a sharp break from the past.” — Hiding Politics in Plain Sight: Cause Marketing, Corporate . . . → Read More: Book Review: Hiding Politics in Plain Sight 
Dear Friends, Here is the latest issue of the BCC Quarterly, a little later than usual, but full of insightful commentary. We review recent books and share initiatives to change health care for the better. We deconstruct yet another screening mammography campaign and point out the conflicts of interest that continue to create confusion instead . . . → Read More: BCCQ (Issue 3) Is Out! 
“For those who survive and those who do not.” That is the dedication Susan Gubar gives to her new book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal. The straight-forward acknowledgement that some people with cancer survive and others do not, suggests instantly that this book is not be about drippy cancer stories floating rhetoric of . . . → Read More: Book Review: Reading & Writing Cancer 
Nancy Stordahl is a former educator, breast cancer blogger at NancysPoint, and a friend of mine. I was delighted to get my signed copy of her self-published memoir Cancer Was Not A Gift & It Didn’t Make Me A Better Person, about her personal experiences with breast cancer. Some of these I already knew about . . . → Read More: Book Review: Cancer Was Not A Gift, And It Didn’t Make Me A Better Person 
Our friend and colleague Jody Schoger died on May 18th at age 61 from metastatic breast cancer. She learned of her recurrence in April of 2013, following a 15-year remission. The news was shocking and devastating. But Jody, ever the rational and reflective patient advocate, shared her thoughts on the only ‘good’ way to cope . . . → Read More: A few words about Jody Schoger
Dear Friends, In the latest issue of the BCC Quarterly, we highlight So Much To Be Done, a must-read collection of writings from breast cancer activist, Barbara Brenner; a new edited collection The Invisible Scars (translated into Catalan), which features the feminist writings of several BCC partners; an important new documentary called The Good Breast, . . . → Read More: BCCQ (Issue 2) Is Out!
This study explores the cultural construction of breast cancer within Canada’s two national newspapers. The two primary discourses in circulation were biomedicine and healthism, and both were associated with the roles of “breast cancer survivor,” “the good consumer,” and the “medical expert.” After presenting the analyses, the authors discuss the psychological, social, political, and . . . → Read More: Research Brief: Breast Cancer Representations in Canadian News Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis |
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