The big squeeze : a social and political history of the controversial mammogram /

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In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer until the age of fifty, reversing guidelines they had issued just seven years before when they recommended forty as the optimal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reynolds, Handel, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2012.
Colección:Culture and politics of health care work.
Temas:
Breast > Radiography > United States > History.
Breast > Cancer > Diagnosis > United States > History.
Medical policy.
Mammography > history
Breast Neoplasms > diagnosis
Health Policy
History, 20th Century
Mammographie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Politique sanitaire.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
MEDICAL > History.
MEDICAL > Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Breast > Cancer > Diagnosis.
Breast > Radiography.
Mammografie
Brustkrebs
Diagnose
United States
United States.
USA.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the mammography story
  • Timing is everything
  • First exposure
  • The aftermath
  • A tale of two epidemics
  • Age is nothing but a number
  • Pulling the plug on granny
  • The house that mammography built
  • Overdiagnosis : mammography's burden.

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