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From Diagnosis to Gnosis: writing, knowledge, and repair in breast cancer and BRCA memoirs.

Perspectives in biology and medicine - 1 Jan 2015

Boesky Amy

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This essay explores the reparative work of diagnostic retellings in breast cancer and BRCA memoirs (memoirs written by women who learn they carry a mutation predisposing them to develop breast or ovarian cancers). It considers four memoirists (Felicia Knaul, Melanie Norton, Masha Gessen, and Sarah Gabriel) as they illuminate initial moments of "finding out"--learning they have cancer or have tested positive for a...

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PMID: 26657683
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2015.0019

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