Three weeks before her wedding, Mrs Joyce Mann discovered that she had a lump in her breast. After a mastectomy she and her husband found just how few facilities there were for women who were considered mutilated. Before a group of nurses, Mrs Mann explains and demonstrates her experience, and the underwear she has worn and now wears. Another cancer victim shows that now, at times breasts can be reconstructed.
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
321562
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Body image
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Breast - Cancer
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cancer
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cancer - Psychological aspects
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Cancer - Surgery
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Health education
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Operations - Surgical
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Surgery, Plastic
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Women - Health and hygiene
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Women - Psychology
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)