By Rachel McCoy
When she was just six months old, Johns Hopkins University student Kathryn Champ was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer called retinoblastoma, and had to have one of her eyes surgically removed.
Category Archive: research
By Kenzie Lane
At the end of Bernadette Wegenstein’s documentary, “The Good Breast,” we see below us the haunting image of a woman lying on an operating table before her mastectomy, her arms outspread. This image, both biblical and medical in its imagery, perhaps captures the very essence of the documentary, whose filmmaker dares not shy away from controversy around this surgical procedure, but rather embraces it with feminist, religious, and cultural influences.