Download or read book Pink Ribbons Inc written by Samantha King and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Pink Ribbon Blues written by Gayle A. Sulik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Beyond the Pink Ribbon written by Michele Tripus Orrson and published by Metamorphosis: Mind Body Spirit. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pink ribbons are everywhere, but how much do you really know about breast cancer? Did you know there are many kinds of breast cancer? Do you know your risks? Do you know how to reduce those risks? If you ever receive this diagnosis, what would you want to know? Beyond the Pink Ribbon is the story of one woman's journey with Stage III Invasive Lobular Carcinoma. In this book, Michele shares all the information she wished she had known before her diagnosis, including translating medical jargon, understanding her treatment options, evaluating the risks that led to the disease, and regaining her lost health. Told through the lens of her own experiences, the book is easily conversational and enlightening.
Download or read book Pink Ribbon Program written by Doreen Puglisi and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pink Ribbon Recovery Program is designed to facilitate recovery from breast cancer surgery. These surgeries include lumpectomy, mastectomy, and breast cancer reconstructive surgeries; including TRAM flap, LAT flap, and implant reconstruction. This program also reduces the risk of lymphedema.There are four phases to The Pink Ribbon Recovery Program. Each phase should be maintained for two weeks. The progression from one phase to the next will depend on how you are feeling. You can participate in these exercises two to three times per week. Once you have completed this program, you are now ready to join in many types of mainstream activities. Please be aware of any ongoing limitation you may have due to your surgeries. PHASE I can begin as soon as possible following surgery. Movement promotes blood flow which will increase oxygen supply. This helps to aid in the healing process. PHASE II focuses on improving trunk rotation and lateral flexion (side bending movement). Spine and core stability exercises are added in this phase and we continue with shoulder range of motion exercises. PHASE III adds more strengthening exercises for the core and we begin to incorporate lower body strength and stability exercises. Phase IV introduces the use of resistance to the workout. A Dynaband is used to strengthen the muscles of the back, shoulder, and trunk. Talk to your doctor or healthcare team member before starting this or any exercise program. The Pink Ribbon Recovery Program works in conjunction with your doctor's recommendations for an exercise program. You may also use this program in conjunction with, or as a follow-up to any prescribed physical therapy.
Download or read book The Pink Ribbon Storycuts written by A S Byatt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been five years since Madeleine has recognised her husband James. As she drops deeper into her dementia, their lives fill up with the ghosts of her past and of Blitz-era London. When late one night his loneliness causes him to welcome a distressed young lady into their home, he must re-evaluate his perspective. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of Stories.
Download or read book Pretty Pink Ribbons written by K. L. Grayson and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laney Jacobs moves back home to tell the man see loves (and broke his heart) how much he means to her before it's too late.
Download or read book Little Black Book of Stories written by A. S. Byatt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups—from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. • “A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and make your pulse race.” —The New York Times Book Review Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for adults. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.
Download or read book Beyond the Pink Ribbon written by Rhonda Rhea Byrd and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Pink Ribbon provides an in-depth view of the author's seven year spiritual journey through breast cancer. Beyond the Pink Ribbon pierces the veil of the breast cancer experience and tells how the author survived Stage IV breast cancer without the traditional treatments of surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation. Very much like Job, the author faced and overcame tremendous adversity. Beyond the Pink Ribbon reveals the author's unwavering faith in the promises of God.
Download or read book Breast Cancer Sucks written by Notebook & Journal Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Breast Cancer Awareness & Pink Ribbon Journal Notebook is the perfect Gift for any Women who suffer Cancer, fight like a Warrior & loves to take Notes & Thoughts daily.
Download or read book The Pink Ribbon written by D. Taylor and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young woman walking in a strange forest falls into a deep pit, she must draw upon her childhood stories and a curious dream for strength and direction. Since she was a girl, Sara had been told amazing stories by her mother about heaven, Earth, and the rainbow bridge. This bridge is the actual connector between heaven and Earth that animals must cross to enter heaven. Each morning, her mother brushes her hair, sparks her imagination with a new part of the story, and then ties back her hair with a pink silk ribbon. Sara develops the habit of removing the ribbon and tying it on animals she finds who have passed away in the woods, fields, and beach near her home. She says to the animal, "I send you with some of my love to protect you, help you see clearly, and find your way home to the rainbow bridge." Now, Sara lies at the bottom of a muddy hole, crying for help. All of those animals are in heaven with Sara's father, listening to her hopeless desperation. They are crowded onto the bridge, looking over the edge, and they will do anything to help her. They tie together all of their ribbons to create a rope, lower it from heaven to Earth, and lift her out of the pit to safety. This is a story of how Sara's simple acts of kindness find their way back to her.
Download or read book The Undying written by Anne Boyer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION "The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." —Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. Includes black-and-white illustrations
Download or read book The Pink Ribbon written by M.R. Champagne and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of collected poetry, art work, and a short story that started about twelve years ago. The poetry started with a simple muse. A thought that required no thought what-so-ever. The inspiration and the desire started with a girl sitting in the same classroom, later writing became a pleasant way to pass the time. The art work started with a severe case of writers block, which lead to drawing lines on paper. It isnt really supposed to look like anything, just whatever is seen in the eye of the beholder. The short story came about from the passing of someone that was dear to the heart. A grandma, who prayed every day for a grandson she barely even knew. The Pink Ribbon is a short story about a little girl with a pink ribbon tied in her hair, fear, and death. There are two wishes that are made with this book. Helping those with cancer is the first. Weather it is the treatment, care, or cure. A percentage of the authors proceeds will go to helping those that suffer from cancer. The second wish is helping the author find The Muse; the girl, who is now a woman, which first inspired and encouraged him to write over a decade ago.
Download or read book Better Than a Pink Ribbon written by Gabriel Insler and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kid's book of advice to other kids who have a parent with cancer from a kid who has been there.
Download or read book How We Do Harm written by Otis Webb Brawley, MD and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book My Story Isn t Over written by Amber Treadwell and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen young survivors tell their remarkable stories of breast cancer diagnosis and survival--all before the age of 40. Featured stories by authors Amber Treadwell, Asheley Goergen, Caitlin Adkins, Connie Sun, Elizabeth Jones, Emily Dickey, Erin Baldwin, Jennifer Hart, Jennifer Wilson, Jessica Freiburger, Laura Currens, Nicole Gibson, Porscha Nikkole, Shon Dansby, Soleil Luke, and Stephanie Reed.All proceeds from this book with be donated to the Pink Ribbon Girls in Tipp City, Ohio.
Download or read book Pink Ribbons Inc written by Samantha King and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008-05-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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
Download or read book Behind the Pink Ribbon written by P. J. Ledar and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
