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SUMMARY:The machinery of authoritarian care: representing and experiencing
  breast cancer treatment in 1970s Britain - Elizabeth Toon (University of 
 Manchester)
DTSTART:20081021T160000Z
DTEND:20081021T173000Z
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CONTACT:Nick Hopwood
DESCRIPTION:Breast cancer narratives are standard media fare today\, with 
 newspapers\, magazines\, books\, films\, radio programmes\, blogs\, and ev
 en comic books telling and retelling the stories of women suffering from t
 his disease. This development\, however\, is relatively recent\, a creatio
 n of the last three decades.  In this paper\, I examine some of the earlie
 st media portrayals - some true-to-life\, some fictional - of British wome
 n being treated for breast cancer.  Chief among these was the 1975 BBC tel
 evision play _Through the Night_\, which playwright Trevor Griffiths based
  on the diary his wife kept during her own hospital stay.  This programme 
 captured national attention by depicting a young mother's experience with 
 what one expert called 'the machinery of authoritarian care'.  _Through th
 e Night_ and the responses to it serve as my starting point for examining 
 the emergence of the breast cancer narrative in Britain\, and for analysin
 g its forms\, meanings and uses in 1970s and 1980s culture.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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