Pink Ribbons, Inc - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pink Ribbons, Inc write by Samantha King. This book was released on 2006. Pink Ribbons, Inc available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The commercialization of the breast cancer movement is challenged in this analysis of how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship.
Pink Ribbon Blues
Pink Ribbon Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pink Ribbon Blues write by Gayle A. Sulik. This book was released on 2012-10-18. Pink Ribbon Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry and analyzes the social impact on women living with breast cancer -- the stereotypes and the stigmas.
How We Do Harm
How We Do Harm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How We Do Harm write by Otis Webb Brawley, MD. This book was released on 2012-01-31. How We Do Harm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm. Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of The American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy career. How We Do Harm pulls back the curtain on how medicine is really practiced in America. Brawley tells of doctors who select treatment based on payment they will receive, rather than on demonstrated scientific results; hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that seek out patients to treat even if they are not actually ill (but as long as their insurance will pay); a public primed to swallow the latest pill, no matter the cost; and rising healthcare costs for unnecessary—and often unproven—treatments that we all pay for. Brawley calls for rational healthcare, healthcare drawn from results-based, scientifically justifiable treatments, and not just the peddling of hot new drugs. Brawley's personal history – from a childhood in the gang-ridden streets of black Detroit, to the green hallways of Grady Memorial Hospital, the largest public hospital in the U.S., to the boardrooms of The American Cancer Society—results in a passionate view of medicine and the politics of illness in America - and a deep understanding of healthcare today. How We Do Harm is his well-reasoned manifesto for change.
Pink Ribbons Inc
Pink Ribbons Inc - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pink Ribbons Inc write by Nancy Guerin. This book was released on 2012. Pink Ribbons Inc available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pink Ribbons, Inc.
Pink Ribbons, Inc. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pink Ribbons, Inc. write by Samantha King. This book was released on 2008-05-19. Pink Ribbons, Inc. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Samantha King explains how, beyond being an all-too-frequent and still-too-lethal disease for many women, breast cancer is a corporate dream come true.” —Herizons “Fascinating. King’s deft and thoughtful interpretation of the pink ribbon phenomenon is an important wake-up call. Going against the grain, she takes a clear-eyed look at a trend that often seems to outshine the disease that put it on the map.” —Women’s Review of Books “King’s criticisms of breast-cancer philanthropy provide a new means of looking at one of our culture’s most celebrated causes. For anyone who has ever squirreled away yogurt lids for the cause, Pink Ribbons, Inc. is food for thought.” —Bitch “A fascinating read for anyone whose life has been touched by breast cancer.” —Curve “Breast cancer advocacy is being transformed from meaningful civic participation into purchasing products. To understand the personal, social, and political costs, read this book.” —Barbara Brenner, Executive Director of Breast Cancer Action In Pink Ribbons, Inc., Samantha King traces how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship. Here, for the first time, King questions the effectiveness and legitimacy of privately funded efforts to stop the epidemic among American women. Highly revelatory-at times shocking-Pink Ribbons, Inc. challenges the commercialization of the breast cancer movement. Samantha King is associate professor of physical and health education and women’s studies at Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario
