The Cancer Journals
Book • 1980 • Biography
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Used non-pejoratively because that was the word in use at the time. Still stings
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Is there gun violence?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Does someone have cancer?
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The book is about the author’s breast cancer
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Discussed in the abstract in the context of victim blaming
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Is there amputation?
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