“I have one breast, so what?”: Perceptions of mastectomy and breast reconstruction among patients and peer counsellors

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Source:

Abstracts of the 44th {Annual} {Meeting} {Surgical} {Research} {Society} of {Southern} {Africa}, Volume 54, p.172–223 (2016)

URL:

http://sajs.redbricklibrary.com/index.php/sajs/article/view/2045

Medical Humanities in Africa

WISER is working to establish the field of medical humanities in South Africa with other partners at Wits and in the region. Medical Humanities took root in the interdisciplinary spaces between social history of medicine, medical sociology, medical anthropology, literary studies, art and film studies, cultural studies, politics, philosophy, legal studies, public health, psychiatry, medical economics and medical ethics. Although initially concerned with contrasting and comparing approaches from the humanities and medical science to themes of health, suffering, therapy, pain and illness, it has grown in ambition to consider the foundational question of what it is to be fully human, inviting debate around vital epistemological problems. The interface of medicine and humanities also demands a broadly interdisciplinary discussion about what constitutes evidence, and this is critical in the formulation of all contemporary political arguments, including health policies. 

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Dear author

Could you please send me a copy of your journal article. I am a PhD student researching on the the illness experience of breast cancer in the context of public health care.

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