Early detection : women, cancer, & awareness campaigns in the twentieth-century United States /

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Aims to dispel the common notion that American women became activists in the fight against female cancer only after the 1970s. This book offers an examination of films, publications, health fairs, and archival materials and traces women's cancer education campaigns back to the early twentieth c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gardner, Kirsten E. (Kirsten Elizabeth)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Cancer in women > Social aspects > History > 20th century.
Cancer in women > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Neoplasms > history
Women > history
Cancer chez la femme > Aspect social > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Cancer chez la femme > Aspect politique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
Cancer in women > Political aspects
Cancer in women > Social aspects
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Look cancer straight in the face: public discussions of women's cancers in the early twentieth century
  • Expanding networks of women: the Amanda Sims Memorial Fund and the Women's Field Army
  • From awareness to screening: early detection redefined
  • Cancer survivors: public discussions of postdiagnostic concerns
  • Screening technology, feminist health movement, cancer critics.

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