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
Autor principal: Reynolds, Handel, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Diagnose
Brustkrebs
Mammografie
Breast > Radiography.
Breast > Cancer > Diagnosis.
Medical policy.
MEDICAL > Gynecology & Obstetrics.
MEDICAL > History.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Politique sanitaire.
Mammographie > États-Unis > Histoire.
History, 20th Century
Health Policy
Breast Neoplasms > diagnosis
Mammography > history
Breast > Cancer > Diagnosis > United States > History.
Breast > Radiography > United States > History.
USA.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
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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