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[email protected] BREAST CANCER: PATIENT NARRATIVES AND TREATMENT METHODS BIRGIT WHITMAN BA (HONS) Well come Unit for the History of Medicine and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF PhD TO GLASGOW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY February 2004 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank the many people who made this thesis possible. My colleagues at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for allowing me the time for this project and for their never-ending practical support and enthusiasm; Consultant Nurse and wonderful friend Donna Parkin; medical secretaries Charlotte Sainsbury, Linda Mallett, Amanda Cresswell; Sam Evans from Medical Illustrations; Consultant Surgeon Brian Heather; Chloe George and Alison Hicks from the Medical Library. Staff at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in Glasgow and London for making me welcome and supporting me; Ann Mullholland, Ray Mcbain, Malcolm Nicolson, Anne Crowther and particularly my advisor Marguerite Dupree; Fiona McDonald for her invaluable comments and reference material; the staff in the Library and Medical Photographic Library.