Bathsheba's breast : women, cancer & history /

"In 1967, an Italian surgeon touring Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum stopped in front of Rembrandt's Bathsheba at Her Bath, on loan from the Louvre, and noticed an asymmetry to Bathsheba's left breast; it seemed distended, swollen near the armpit, discolored, and marked with a distinctiv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olson, James Stuart, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Temas:
Breast > Cancer > History.
Breast Neoplasms > history
Mastectomy > history
Sein > Cancer > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Oncology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
Breast > Cancer
Brustkrebs
Geschichte
Borstkanker.
History
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Across Time
  • 1. Dark Ages
  • 2. "Unkindest Cut of All": The Origins of the Mastectomy
  • 3. William Stewart Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy
  • 4. Superradicals and the Medicine of Mutilation
  • 5. New Beginnings: Assault on the Radical Mastectomy
  • 6. Beauty and the Breast: The Great American Obsession
  • 7. Out of the Closet: Breast Cancer in the 1970s
  • 8. Patient Heal Thyself: Quacks and Cures in the Age of Narcissism
  • 9. Choices: Medical Treatment in the Age of Liberation
  • 10. The Breast Cancer Wars
  • 11. Biology, Society, and Destiny
  • Epilogue: The New Millennium.

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