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Patient No MoreThe Politics of Breast CancerSHARON BATT Feminist journalism at its best - this book presents an extraordinary amount of medical, historical, and personal material in a style as gripping as a novel . . . a brilliant analysis. - Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD,National Women's Health Network |
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Sharon Batt was a healthy, athletic woman when she found a lump in her breast. After the shock of her diagnosis with breast cancer wore off, Batt undertook a quest to understand her disease. Her journey led her from a startling investigation of the labyrinthine medical establishment to an awareness of how researchers, the media and fundraising organisations manipulate appearances and play for high monetary stakes in the breast cancer "game". She also discovered how people with cancer have broken free of apathy, fear and silence. Her book closes with a feminist vision for change and an insider’s look at the increasingly powerful cancer movement.
Sharon Batt is an award-winning journalist and former editor of the consumer protection magazine Protect Yourself. In December 1993, she organised an international panel on breast cancer that brought together medical practitioners and breast cancer activists. Batt currently lives and works in Montreal.
Published to great acclaim in Canada, USA and the UK, the Spinifex edition has been updated with new information by Australian cancer activists, Marcia O'Keefe and Helen Varney.
