Patient No More: The Politics of Breast Cancer
Journalist Sharon Batt was a healthy athletic woman when she found a lump in her breast, and after the diagnosis she set out to understand her disease. It led her on a journey to unravelling the politics of medical research, of media and fundraisers who play the breast cancer ‘game’. Her book gives hope by closing with a call for a breast cancer movement, such as we have begun to see in recent years.
1996 | ISBN 9781875559398 | Paperback | 218 x 140 mm | 431 pp
Awards
1995 Laura Jamieson Award - Best Feminist Book Published in Canada in 1994
1995 Finalist, QSPELL - Best Non-Fiction Book in English by a Quebec Writer
Reviews
‘Feminist journalism at its best – this book presents an extraordinary amount of medical, historical, and personal material in a style that is as gripping as a novel … a brilliant analysis.’
–Adrienne Fugh Berman, MD, National Women’s Health Network
‘The international best-selling book on breast cancer.’
–Peter Thompson, ABC Radio National