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Cancer activism : gender, media, and public policy

Title
Cancer activism : gender, media, and public policy / Karen M. Kedrowski, Marilyn Stine Sarow.
Author
Kedrowski, Karen M.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007], ©2007.
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Sarow, Marilyn S.
Description
xxiii, 288 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"The first book to compare the breast cancer and prostate cancer movements, Cancer Activism explores the interplay among advocacy, the media, and public perception of the diseases. Karen M. Kedrowski and Marilyn Stine Sarow analyze the efforts of breast cancer and prostate cancer activist groups over a nearly twenty-year period to show how these groups continue to be successful in sustaining or increasing federal spending on gender-related cancers. In tracing the rise of each movement, Cancer Activism explores how discussions about the diseases appeared in the media and as part of public and government agendas and how those agendas affected one another."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Breast > Political aspects > United States
  • Breast > Social aspects > United States
  • Prostate > Political aspects > United States
  • Prostate > Social aspects > United States
  • Breast Neoplasms
  • Mass Media
  • Patient Advocacy
  • Prostatic Neoplasms
  • Public Policy
  • Social Marketing
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-278) and index.
Contents
1. Two activist movements emerge -- 2. A typology of grassroots survivors' organizations -- 3. Breast cancer and prostate cancer in the media -- 4. The public face of cancer : breast cancer and prostate cancer in the media and public perceptions of risk -- 5. Media advocacy evidence -- 6. Two cancers go to Congress : media advocacy and the policy agenda -- 7. Agenda maintenance : the politics of issue definition and framing -- 8. Ribbon wars : cause-related marketing and the selling of breast cancer and prostate cancer -- 9. Policy dilemmas and maturing movements.
ISBN
  • 9780252031984 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252031989 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006100919
OCLC
  • ocm76940038
  • 76940038
  • SCSB-5351046
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries