Book Reviews
Introduction to Breast Care
Carol Bird
ISBN: 978-1-861563-57-6 2005 220 pages Wiley
Annette Summers
Associate Professor (Midwifery), Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, SA
This is an in-depth text by Carol Bird, an English district nurse,
that covers all aspects of the nursing care of the female breast and
includes the physiology of the breast; breast awareness and screening
programmes; several chapters on benign and malignant breast disease
from diagnosis of disease to treatment: Bird also includes
psychological and psychosocial aspects of breast disease, diet and
complementary therapies, concluding with brief discussion on male
breast cancer.
The text is written in a way that engages the reader using
unsophisticated language which many nurses and nursing students may
find useful. I believe it would have been in enhanced by some
diagrams/pictures especially when describing the anatomy and physiology
and certain aspects of the disease process.
The text is very much set in the English health system which
detracts from its usefulness in Australia. Whilst certain aspects of
the text are general as may be of interest to the Australian nurse and
nursing student chapters on screening and referral strategies that also
tend to be interwoven throughout the text are not applicable to the
Australian health care system.
Overall an easy to read text on a specific topic but has limited use in the Australian context.
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