Mammography Wars

Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes

AvAsia Friedman

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Book Award, Social Problems Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age fifty, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews with women ages 40 to 50, and newspaper coverage of mammography, Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the "mammography wars," offering insights into the entrenched nature of debates over mammography that often get missed when applying a medical lens. Friedman's analysis also suggests the sociology of attention's unique potential for analyzing cultural conflicts beyond mammography, and even beyond medicine.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-06-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:54 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9781978830639

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ASIA FRIEDMAN is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Delaware. Her first book, Blind to Sameness: Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies (University of Chicago, 2013), won the 2016 Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association.

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"Mammography Wars is an insightful intervention into deeply entrenched conflict surrounding mammography screening standards in the United States. Friedman deftly blends together empirical analysis of the narratives driving disagreements among professionals and patients alike with a clear and accessible take on the power of the sociology of attention, breaking through seemingly intractable ideological battles to resolve conflict."— Piper Sledge, author of Bodies Unbound: Gender-Specific Cancer and Biolegitimacy"Mammography Wars is transparent about its aims, theoretical underpinnings, and methodology. Further informing literature on the political, economic, cultural, and other social contours of breast cancer and the mammography debate, the book introduces a sociology of attention as an analytic tool to show how disagreements can become hostilities with seemingly no common ground, but also how crosscurrents (productive dissonances) can emerge across usual divisions to foster mental flexibility, understanding, and the potential for reconciliation. The book is detailed in its presentation of findings and serves as a model for how to apply an attentional lens to intractable social problems of all kinds."— Gender & Society"Friedman is a thorough researcher with a clear, engaging style. Her focus on patterns of attention as the organizing analytical framework is fresh and unusual: a fascinating read."— Kelly Joyce, professor of sociology, Drexel University

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Introduction: The Mammography WarsChapter 1: Skepticism and Interventionism as Attentional TypesChapter 2: Attentional Diversity—The Cognitive Structure of Patients' Narratives of MammographyChapter 3: Attentional Battles over MammographyChapter 4: Attentional Weight—Relevance, Risk, and Expertise in MammographyChapter 5: Mammography and TimeConclusion: Attentional FlexibilityAppendixAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex