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Author Wisenberg, S. L. (Sandi L.)

Title The adventures of cancer bitch / S.L. Wisenberg.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (164 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary Wisenberg may have lost a breast, but she retained her humor, outrage, and skepticism toward common wisdom and most institutions. While following the prescribed protocols at the place she called Fancy Hospital, Wisenberg is unsparing in her descriptions of the fumblings of new doctors, her own awkward announcement to her students, and the mounds of unrecyclable plastic left at a survivors' walk. Combining the personal with the political, she shares her research on the money spent on pink ribbons instead of preventing pollution, and the disparity in medical care between the insured and the unin.
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Subject Wisenberg, S. L. (Sandi L.)
Wisenberg, S. L. (Sandi L.)
Wisenberg, S. L. Wisenberg, Sandi L.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Breast -- Cancer -- Anecdotes.
Breast -- Cancer.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Blogs.
Genre/Form Blogs.
Anecdotes.
Electronic books.
Subject Breast.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Blogs.
Other Form: Print version: Wisenberg, S.L. (Sandi L.). Adventures of cancer bitch. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009 9781587298028 (DLC) 2008908535 (OCoLC)268787806
ISBN 9781587298523 (electronic book)
158729852X (electronic book)
9781587298028
1587298023