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Author: Gayle A. Sulik
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0199740453
Category: Medical

Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health

Pink ribbon paraphernalia saturate shopping malls, billboards, magazines, television, and other venues, all in the name of breast cancer awareness. Download Pink Ribbon Blues medical books for free.
In this compelling and provocative work, Gayle Sulik shows that though this "pink ribbon culture" has brought breast cancer advocacy much attention, it has not had the desired effect of improving women's health. It may, in fact, have done the opposite. Based on eight years of research, analysis of advertisements and breast cancer awareness campaigns, and hundreds of interviews with those affected by the disease, Pink Ribbon Blues highlights the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry, one in which breast cancer has become merely a brand name with a pink logo. Indeed, while survivors Get Pink Ribbon Blues our bestseller medical books.

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