title: The Amazon Project: helping the patient to become an instrument of her own recovery.
abstract: The Amazon Project combines science, myth, and theater to explore problems linked to cancer and its surgical management in women from a social, political, and cultural point of view. This Project is concerned with change in the hope that one day it will be possible to discuss, along with the Science of Medicine, the Science of Patients as well.
authors.affiliation: Associazione Arlenika, Progetto Amazzone, Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barbera
authors.forename: Lina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Prosa
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012648:Self Care