The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America /

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Chronicles the various campaigns waged against breast cancer and its effects on women during the last century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lerner, Barron H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Temas:
1900-1999
Breast > Cancer > United States > History > 20th century.
Mastectomy > United States > History > 20th century.
Breast Neoplasms > surgery
History, 20th Century
Mastectomy > history
Breast Neoplasms > history
Sein > Cancer > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mastectomie > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
MEDICAL > Oncology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
Breast > Cancer
Mastectomy
Brustkrebs
Geschichte 1900-2000.
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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