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 h-seminar-dr-judy-segal-what-do-cancer-narratives-do-and-why-do-they/
SUMMARY:What Do Cancer Narratives Do and Why Do They Do It?
DESCRIPTION:\n\nDr. Judy Segal is a Professor in the Department of Engli
 sh Language and Literatures\, and in the Science and Technology Studies Gr
 aduate Program in the Faculty of Arts.  Her field is Rhetoric (the study 
 of persuasion from ancient Greece through the present)\, and\, especially\
 , Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (she writes about persuasion in a number
  of health and medical contexts: scientific publication\, doctor-patient i
 nterviews\, illness narratives\, pharmaceutical marketing\, FDA decision-m
 arketing . . . others.)  She is currently teaching a graduate course on r
 hetorics of mental health.\n\nHer book\, Health and the Rhetoric of Medici
 ne is the foundational book in her field.  Her articles appear in rhetori
 c journals\, science studies journals\, interdisciplinary health journals\
 , and medical journals. Her first article on the FDA approval of the drug 
 flibanserin for “female sexual dysfunction” appeared as one of the fir
 st Humanities and Social Science features in the Canadian Medical Associat
 ion Journal.  Judy has been a Distinguished Scholar at the Peter Wall Ins
 titute for Advanced Studies and a recipient of a Killam Teaching Prize. Sh
 e was a member of the first President’s International Advisory Committee
  of CIHR.\n\nJudy’s research has covered a range of topics in women’s 
 health.  She has published not only on breast-cancer experience and breas
 t-cancer narratives (her topic today)\, but also on women and pain (especi
 ally migraine) and on women’s sexual desire and the medicalization of se
 x. She is currently writing about aging\, ageism\, and\, especially ageism
  and women. (Fun fact: during the US primaries in 2016\, Judy googled the 
 phrases “Bernie Sanders too old” and “Hilary Clinton too old.” She
  found nearly 10 times more results for Clinton than for Sanders—about 2
  million people found Clinton too old to be President\, compared with abou
 t 200\,000 for Sanders. As Judy writes in a recent essay on the rhetoric o
 f ageism\, Clinton’s grandmotherhood was a favorite topic of internet co
 mments—although Clinton had seven times fewer grandchildren than Sanders
 \; she was also six years younger.)\n\n&nbsp\;
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CATEGORIES:Women’s Health Seminar Series
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