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catalyst-28820	Lindén, Lisa; Sullivan, Mairead	Review of Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013) and Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (Routledge, 1997)	2015		.htm	text/html	6041	341	48	Although Teratologies has long been on the readings lists of students and scholars of queer and feminist STS, feminist health studies, and cancer cultural studies more widely, Malignant's more recent publication highlights the many cultural shifts and theoretical innovations that have taken place in the time between their publications: the stabilization and rapid growth of feminist STS studies on medicine, the increased discussion around temporality and affect in feminist and queer theory, the advent of the information age, and the wider attention to environmental and social correlates to cancer, to name just a few. The overlapping themes in the books are plenty: patient perspectives, cancer time, emotions such as fear, hope and anxiety, critiques of the individualization of risk and health responsibility, and an understanding of cancer as complex and elusive.	cache/catalyst-28820.htm	txt/catalyst-28820.txt