Thinking pink? Consumer reactions to pink ribbons and vague messages in advertising

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Pink ribbons for breast cancer awareness - a perspective.

Pink ribbons for breast cancer awareness … a perspective.

Pink Disease *

physical signs of disease in lung still present, though less marked than on admission. General health improved, but not restored. In the 1930-1 report, Sir St. Clair Thompson states :-"Out of thirteen cases with laryngeal tuberculosis, approximately thirty per cent. were "arrested," while sixty-six per cent. of the remainder were "improved." These figures suggest that with more modern methods o...

Pink Disease

THE first account of this disease was published in 1903 by Selter of Solengin, who called it trophodermatoneurosis, but not until Dr. Swift of Australia described it was it recognised as a clinical entity. Since then numerous descriptions have appeared, including that of Feer, a German paediatrician. Several names are still current, e.g., erythrcedema, acrodynia, dermato-polyneuritis, while in ...

Thinking Past Pink: Critical Considerations of Women & Gaming

Much of what has been written about gender and computer games has stayed in the realm of questions of content (do we need ”feminine” designs) to the exclusion of more sociologically informed considerations. Some notable exceptions are emerging in which issues of marketing, access, arrangements of domestic space, and the role of social networks are taken as serious factors in understanding women...