{"id":55654,"date":"2023-06-02T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jun\/02\/power-of-touch-how-blind-women-are-helping-detect-breast-cancer-india-acc"},"modified":"2023-06-02T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T06:00:06","slug":"power-of-touch-how-blind-women-are-helping-detect-breast-cancer-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55654","title":{"rendered":"Power of touch: how blind women are helping detect breast cancer in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scheme training visually impaired women to use their heightened tactile abilities benefits patients and examiners<\/p>\n<p>The most satisfying part of Ritika Maurya\u2019s work is reassuring the anxious. \u201cWomen fear coming for breast examinations,\u201d says Maurya. \u201cWhat if a lump is found in my breast? Will that be the end of my life? These are some of the questions that haunt them all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maurya is, she says, \u201cstill learning to be good at this\u201d. As a blind child, she had a sheltered upbringing with protective parents who rarely let her leave the house.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jun\/02\/power-of-touch-how-blind-women-are-helping-detect-breast-cancer-india-acc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scheme training visually impaired women to use their heightened tactile abilities benefits patients and examinersThe most satisfying part of Ritika Maurya\u2019s work is reassuring the anxious. \u201cWomen fear coming for breast examinations,\u201d says Maurya. \u201cWh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3770,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2923,1020,59,566,346,62,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breast-cancer","category-disability","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-india","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55655,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55654\/revisions\/55655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}