The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / Barron H. Lerner.
- Lerner, Barron H
- Date:
- 2003, ©2001
- Books
- Online
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Publication/Creation
Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003, ©2001.
Physical description
391 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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