A darker ribbon : breast cancer, women, and their doctors in the twentieth century / Ellen Leopold.

Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [1999], ©1999.

xi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-327) and index.

The Prehistory of Breast Cancer -- The Dominance of Surgery -- "A Really Hideous Mutilation": The Radical Mastectomy in the Correspondence of a Breast Cancer Patient and her Surgeon, William Stewart Halsted, 1917-22 -- "A Private Little Hell": the Letters of Rachel Carson and Dr. George Crile, Jr., 1960-64 -- The Battle for the Breast -- Breast Cancer within the History of the Women's Health Movements -- From the Closet to the Commonplace, 1945-75 -- At the Close of the Century -- The Last Word: Obituaries.