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Author Lerner, Barron H.

Title The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / Barron H. Lerner
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 391 pages) : illustrations, portraits
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
Summary Chronicles the various campaigns waged against breast cancer and its effects on women during the last century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-369) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Breast -- Cancer -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Mastectomy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Breast Neoplasms -- surgery
History, 20th Century
Mastectomy -- history
Breast Neoplasms -- history
MEDICAL -- Oncology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
Breast -- Cancer
Mastectomy
Brustkrebs
Geschichte 1900-2000.
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781429461870
142946187X