Like Any Other Woman : The Lived Experience of Gynaecological Cancer
Saorsa, Jac
Like Any Other Woman : The Lived Experience of Gynaecological Cancer - Cardiff Cardiff University Press 2019 - 1 electronic resource (190 p.)
Open Access
"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."
Creative Commons
English
book2 9781911653059; 9781911653066; 9781911653073
10.18573/book2 doi
The arts
Biography & True Stories
Humanities
Medicine
Health & personal development
Patient experience Women's health Art and medicine autoethnography Art and science Narrative medicine
Like Any Other Woman : The Lived Experience of Gynaecological Cancer - Cardiff Cardiff University Press 2019 - 1 electronic resource (190 p.)
Open Access
"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."
Creative Commons
English
book2 9781911653059; 9781911653066; 9781911653073
10.18573/book2 doi
The arts
Biography & True Stories
Humanities
Medicine
Health & personal development
Patient experience Women's health Art and medicine autoethnography Art and science Narrative medicine