Like Any Other Woman / Rebecca Phillips, Jac Saorsa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Rebecca, author.

Saorsa, Jac, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Other Title:

Like Any Other Woman

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Cardiff University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Like Any Other Woman speaks to the suffering that cancer causes, and to the profound human experience of renegotiating the physical and emotional balance between sickness and health when that balance is tipped by the onset of disease. A profound and moving collaboration between an artist and a young woman who has endured the impact of a cancer diagnosis and its consequences, this is not a book about the cancer itself, the medical world of causes, symptoms, interventions and treatment regimes. It is rather about what it feels like when all sense of normality, all the expectations of a future that accompany good health, suddenly become submerged in degrees of suffering that impact both on the individual and on the people who care for and about her. Like Any Other Woman is illustrated with original artwork by Jac Saorsa, taken from the Drawing Women's Cancer project."

Contents:

Introduction

Vulval Neoplasia

It Begins

Meeting Becky

SUTURE 1: Jo. VIN and AIN

The Senedd Exhibition, 2012: Speaking the Unspeakable

Becky. Return Visit: Part 1

SUTURE 2: Anita. Vulval Cancer

Becky. Return Visit: Part 2

SUTURE 3: The Survivors Group

Becky. Return Visit: Part 3

SUTURE 4: How Do You Know How Much to Cut?

Becky. Return Visit: Part 4

Reflections on 'The Cut': Part 1

SUTURE 5: Tracey. Cervical Cancer

Becky. Return Visit: Part 5

Reflections on 'The Cut': Part 2

Becky. Return Visit: Part 6

SUTURE 6: Kate. Endometrial Cancer

Becky. Return Visit: Part 7

The Miscarriage

SUTURE 7: Maria. Ovarian Cancer

Becky. Searching for the Cause of Pain

Becky. The BRCA Gene: Part 1

Becky. The Nerve

Pain

The Aftermath

SUTURE 8: Old Lady. Vulval Cancer

Becky. The BRCA Gene: Part 2. Becky. Final Chapter.

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