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Volume 12 Issue 2 - 2003

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99 Editorial
Jane Shoebridge, Eileen Willis

100 Guest Editorial: Symposium on Women's Health: Breast health
Lynne Hunt, Beverley McNamara

103 Breast Sharing: Cross-feeding among Australian women
Debbie Long

111 Lifetimes of Limitation: Breast health and human finitude
Bethne Hart

120 You'll Never Hear Them Say 'You're Cured': The language of tragedy in cancer care
Katrina Breaden

129 Bad News: A narrative account of the subjective experience of mastectomy
Lekkie Hopkins

137 Reconstructing the Self: Breast cancer and the post-surgical body
Samantha Crompvoets

146 Troublesome Breasts: Older women living in the liminal state of being 'at risk' of breast cancer
Yoni Luxford

155 Guest Editorial: Symposium on the Sociology of Health and Ageing
Eileen Clark

156 Imagining the Third Age: Symbolic exchange and old age
Chris King

163 Social Capital: One source of wellness in older adults?
Eileen Clark, Terence McCann

171 Becoming a Wise Old Woman: Resilience and wellness in later life
Suzy Gattuso

Book Reviews

178 Palliative care and communication: Experiences in the clinic
Anne-Mei The (translated from the Dutch by Robert Pool)
Reviewed by Katrina Breaden

180 The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
Gary Albrecht, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Susan Scrimshaw (eds)
Reviewed by Fran Collyer

182 Anorexia nervosa and bulimia: How to help
Marilyn Duker and Roger Slade
Reviewed by Lucie Ramjan



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Selected Articles

Circumcision and the Socially Imagined Sexual Body
Juliet Richters


AIDS is a Tear in the Social Fabric of Papua New Guinea
Heather Worth, Klara Henderson


Beyond Giddens: Differentiating Bodies
Elizabeth Eckermann


Postivisim Resurgent
Kevin White, Evan Willis


Hospice nurses tell their stories about a good death: The value of storytelling as a qualitative health research method
Bev Taylor


Disciplining the Medical Profession?
Mike Dent


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