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Mammography Wars - Asia Friedman

Mammography Wars

Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes

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Buch | Hardcover
276 Seiten
2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3064-6 (ISBN)
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Mammography is a routine health screening performed 40 million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the “mammography wars.”
 
Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Book Award, Social Problems Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems

Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age fifty, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews with women ages 40 to 50, and newspaper coverage of mammography, Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the “mammography wars,” offering insights into the entrenched nature of debates over mammography that often get missed when applying a medical lens. Friedman’s analysis also suggests the sociology of attention’s unique potential for analyzing cultural conflicts beyond mammography, and even beyond medicine.
 

ASIA FRIEDMAN is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Delaware. Her first book, Blind to Sameness: Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies (University of Chicago, 2013), won the 2016 Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association.  

Introduction: The Mammography Wars
Chapter 1: Skepticism and Interventionism as Attentional Types
Chapter 2: Attentional Diversity—The Cognitive Structure of Patients’ Narratives of Mammography
Chapter 3: Attentional Battles over Mammography
Chapter 4: Attentional Weight—Relevance, Risk, and Expertise in Mammography
Chapter 5: Mammography and Time
Conclusion: Attentional Flexibility
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Zusatzinfo 10 bw, 6 tables
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Allgemeines / Lexika
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Onkologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-9788-3064-5 / 1978830645
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-3064-6 / 9781978830646
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