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JOANNA BOURKE

Blogs
Here are my latest blogs! Enjoy.


SHaME: Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters
For five and a half years, I have been privileged to work with the SHaME team at Birkbeck. It has been the most intellectually rewarding...
Apr 24, 20241 min read


Breast Cancer: Stories and Activism
In September 1971, Ebony magazine published an article that broke a major taboo: a survivor of breast cancer wrote candidly about her...
Feb 5, 202425 min read


Breast Cancer: A History
Suddenly feeling a lump in one’s breast is terrifying, yet it is an experience suffered by one in every eight women in Britain and...
Jan 7, 20246 min read


Digital Ways of Dying
A fortnight ago, a friend sent me a light-hearted reminder that it was her birthday in a few days. She does this every year. The problem...
Jan 3, 20249 min read


Headache: A History
In 1964, author and critic Susan Sontag published a little-known short story entitled ‘Man with a Pain’. It is an eloquent reflection not...
Jan 3, 20247 min read
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