From the Margins of Healthcare: De-mythicizing Cancer Online
Abstract
“From the Margins of Healthcare: De-mythicizing Cancer Online” is a deeply personal study in which a breast cancer survivor and participant-observer in the large, online peer-to-peer healthcare community emerges from the silenced margins of medical paternalism to give voice to patients often silenced in traditional healthcare settings. This study examines one online thread, an immediate archive, women’s rhetorical history in the making, as a site of feminist praxis through a collaboratively written response to standard medical practice that interrogated top-down policies allowing the silenced to find power and agency.
Department
English
Publication Date
9-1-2016
Journal Title
Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Publisher
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Beemer, C. A. “From the Margins of Healthcare: De-mythicizing Cancer Online.” Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. 19.1 (Fall/Winter 2016).