The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America /
Chronicles the various campaigns waged against breast cancer and its effects on women during the last century.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| ISBN: | 9781429461870 142946187X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Establishing a tradition : William Halsted and the radical mastectomy
- Inventing a curable disease : breast cancer control after World War II
- The scalpel triumphant : radical surgery in the 1950s
- A heretical interlude : biology as fate
- Reality check : breast cancer treatment and randomized controlled trials
- "I alone am in charge of my body" : breast cancer patients in revolt
- No shrinking violet : Rose Kushner and the maturation of breast cancer activism
- Seek and ye shall find : mammography praised and scorned
- "The world has passed us by" : science, activism, and the fall of the radical mastectomy
- The past as prologue : what can the history of breast cancer teach us?
- Risky business : breast cancer and genetics.