Recent research into advanced breast cancer has suggested that young women in general tend to have more aggressive disease, present at a later stage of disease progression and suffer many more issues and concerns than their older counterparts. Whilst breast cancer in women in general has been the target of a vast amount of research and public attention, values and beliefs surrounding advanced breast cancer have not been a focus of concern. The aim of this thesis is to explore scientific journals, the media and to listen to the young women themselves in order to identify the understandings of advanced breast cancer in young women and the ways in which these understandings are perpetuated and sustained over time. The goal is to illuminate the various discourses that are currently being drawn upon to understand this life-limiting illness and the impact these discourses have on the lives of young women concerned. Poststructuralism is the theoretical perspective within which this thesis is located. This approach allowed for a focus on language, power and text. Discourse analysis of three data sets was used. These data sets were drawn from scientific and medical journals (251), medical texts (5), clinical practice guidelines (2), newspaper articles (230) and transcribed conversations with 12 young women diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. The main discourses identified within and across the various data sets were; the discourse of numeracy, the discourse of tragedy and several discourses of the body; the thin body, the declining body, the object body and the gendered body. While the emphasis of each of these discourses varied across the three data sets, they were all present in each to some degree, reflecting broader cultural stories within which the individual stories are located. Young women diagnosed and living with advanced breast cancer are currently being portrayed as living with a tragic disease, controlled and constrained by the statistics and probabilities and played out within and on a body in ‘perpetual disintegration’. The discourses of tragedy, numeracy and the thin, object, gendered and declining body all relate to larger stories of what it is to be dying before one’s time in Western society today.

This thesis investigates how the British press responded to the extermination of European Jewry in 1944 and 1945, well after the West first received reliable reports about the mass killings of Jews in the middle of 1942. Most historians have argued that the press was reluctant to publicise the mass murder of Europe’s Jews in 1942, and they contend that this subject was also neglected in the last two years of the war. But their claims have not been substantiated by a systematic press survey. This thesis provides a systematic analysis of the British press’s response to the Holocaust in 1944 and 1945. There were three crucial developments relating to the extermination of European Jewry in 1944 and 1945. With the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944 its Jewish population of approximately 800,000 faced extermination. Between May and July of the same year almost 400,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Poland where, at Auschwitz-Birkenau, most were exterminated. In April and May 1945 Allied forces began to uncover concentration camps in Germany into which many Jews (including many thousands from Hungary) had entered after being expelled from Polish extermination camps such as Auschwitz. As the German concentration camps were liberated, many Jews were found among the freed inmates.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 268-286).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 257-269).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1935. / "Bibliographical index": p. [116]-120.

Thesis (Revise). / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne, 1996. / Summary also in English. At head of title: Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). U.F.R. de Littŕature franca̧ise. Includes bibliographical references (p. [384]-411).

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne, 1996. / Summary also in English. At head of title: Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). U.F.R. de Littŕature franca̧ise. Includes bibliographical references (p. [384]-411).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003. / Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 204 p.; contains ills., map. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204). Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2006 May 19.

Thesis--University of Chicago, 1912. / Includes bibliographical references.