...Alisa Solomon Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Deena Metzger, photographed by Hella Hammid The Politics of Breast Cancer Alisa Solomon Miriam awoke groggy from her mastectomy at Beth Israel Hospital one July afternoon to a vision that seemed unreal. “A smiling...

... The battery of new optical treatments under development in medicine is part of a visual culture that extends beyond the field of medicine.’ How is the course of medical imaging research determined, and who benefits from new visual technologies? A recent controversy over federal funding of breast...

... money for the company’s main bene ciary, the Breast Cancer Fund, as well as for other women’s charities. A user- friendly lm festival and fundraiser that comes right to your door, LUNAFEST brings the lms of female directors to regions and communities that might otherwise not have access...

...Ann Barry Flood Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Breast Cancer: Adjuvant Therapy, Dartmouth Interactive Laboratory’s Shared Decision-making Program (1992) Empowering Patients: Using Interactive Video Programs To Help Patients Make...

...Joe Henderson, MD; Eric Baumgartner; Scott Chesnut; Brian Driscoll; Anne Henderson; Linda Hurd Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Figure 1. Graphic showing ways that breast cancer may spread. The large round areas are lobules (which make milk); the thin lines are ducts...

..., in the man- ner ofrepresentations ofthe Egyptian goddess Mut;' this vulture-headed mother goddess was usually represented by the Egyptians with a phallus; her body was female, as the breasts indicated, butit also had a male organin astateoferection. '22 The Cleavage ofthe Him...

... slouch next to my teenage sister as we watch an episode of Dr. 90210 (2004 – 8) on E!: Entertainment Television. In this episode, plastic surgeons offer their services to a girl who has undergone a botched breast reconstruction after a double mastectomy.1 My sister, Liv, and I watch...

... conflicting needs and desires of the diverse communities and audiences involved in the circulation of these images and techniques within and beyond medicine and science. Using archival documents and films, Lisa Cartwright analyzes the evolution of public perception of TB and breast...

... vamp was to combine the vamp’s movement vocabulary with the heroine’s expressive reper- toire. In the 1990s production number that Dixit defines, torso movements are focused on the breasts, buttocks, and waist, while facial expression is primarily conveyed through the eyes and the lips...

... surgery reality shows is particularly dispiriting. Though generally designed to be uplifting rather than nasty, Dr. 90210, Body Work, and Plastic Sur- gery: Before and After are antithetical to any feminist visions of the world: a woman with C cup - sized breast implants feels her breasts are too...

..., Cook Island appliqué quilts known as tivaevae, and plastic flowers. During this interview, Everett discloses some unsettling information about how velvet paintings are “manufac- tured.” With a premium placed on big breasts, Everett, McPhee, and others built up a stock of poses and torsos onto...

...Paula A. Treichler; Lisa Cartwright Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Introduction Paula A. Treichler and Lisa Cartwright A series of crises over the last decade-among them the AIDS epidemic, rising breast cancer rates, threats to reproductive choice...

..., and the unresponsiveness of modern medicine in general and the obstetrician-gynecologist in particular. In Self-Health, produced by the San Francisco Women’s Health Center, each of six women in a self-help group learns how to do breast examination, look at her cervix and palpate the uterus and ovaries...

... of the frame, then back to the red dress. The Beethoven variation continues. Return to 19. The man seen in shot 19, Michael kchardson, is now stretched out next to Anne- Marie Stretter, leaning on hselbow, loolung at her. She turns over onto her back, uncovering her breast. In the background...

... for a nineteenth-century chandelier, painted angels on the ceiling, and a naked adult woman sitting on a chair. She is shown as the larger figure, her presence emphasizing his littleness. She sits with her hands under her breasts as if she lays them out as gifts for him or touches them for her own pleasure. She...

... the disruption of a familiar domestic scene: the child is sifting through a freshly laundered pile of the family's socks, matching pairs and rolling into balls, each ball become part-object of Dad, Mother, Sister, Brother, a part-object like the lump that the mother discovers in her left breast. “ ‘Feel...

... 69 70  •  Camera Obscura front of the picture plane. The image is closely cropped around the triangle of empty space between her arms, thighs, and jutting breasts, her face obscured but for the black strokes of her lashes and arched brow. Foreground and background, the photograph...

... in structure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which bioaccumulate as they move up the food chain, a situation that has resulted in Inuit women being warned against breast-­ feeding their children due to dangerous levels of dioxins in their breast milk.10 These horrors need to become...

... in the First Years of Holly- wood”; Robert T. Eberwein, “Reflections on the Breast” Annette Kuhn, ‘The Big Sleep: A Disturbance in the Sphere of Sexuality ”; Maureen Turim , “Symrnetry/Asymmehy and Visual Fascination”; Sandy Flit terman, “MontagelDiscourse...

... Satterfield, Ann D. Pages from Treatment. No. 29; pp. 215-223. Shohat, Ella “Laser for Ladies”: Endo Discourse and the Inscription of Science. No. 29; pp. 57-89. Solomon, Alisa The Politics of Breast Cancer. No. 28; pp. 157-177. Stabile...