本研究以訪談法瞭解女性乳癌患者切除乳房之經驗。本研究結合身體意象概念、身體社會學、醫學社會學、女性主義、法國社會理論詮釋女性乳患者切除乳房後身體改變及如何條飾外表的經驗。本研究將指出這些論點雖然可以提供敏銳的批判分析，但也有一此限制。女性主義提出的正規乳房概念，固然可以解析醫學科技、醫學論述、女性乳癌病患如何受到正規乳房身體意象的影響。但是，並不是所有戴義乳、接受乳房重建的病患都是受到正規乳房身體意象的制約，其他社會文他建構的身體意象，例如宗教、年齡的論述也有影響力。本文將分析身心二元論、性別二元論如何影響女性乳癌患者對待其身體的方式。本文也將指出，女性身體不只是鐫刻身體馴化技術的文本，也是能感覺的、活生生的身體，此身體所感受的病痛也是抵抗身體馴化的因素。

　　　　　This research uses interview to understand the female breast cancer patients' embodiedexperience of losing the breast and draws on the concept of body image, which, in turn, combinessociology of the body, medical sociology, feminism and French social theory to interpret thisexperience. Although feminism is helpful in analyzing how the image of the normalized breastshapes medical discourse and the female breast cancer patients, it has some limitations. Indeed, thisresearch finds that not all the female breast cancer patients are influenced by the image of thenormalized breast regarding their medical decision of taking breast construction and that other bodyimages constructed in the discourse of religion and age can also exert influence. This paper willanalyze how the mind/body dualism and the sex/gender division can mediate the female breastcancer patients' way of treating their bodies. This paper will contend that the female body is not justa passive body for inscribing the technology of body discipline. In fact, the female body is asentient, living body, which can feel the pain and therefore can refuse mainstream body imagesubstantiated by medical practice.