How cancer crossed the color line /

"Examining a century of twists and turns in anti-cancer campaigns, this path-breaking study shows how American cancer awareness, prevention, treatment, and survival have been refracted through the lens of race. As cancer went from being a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wailoo, Keith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Börngen, ...
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Cancer > United States.
Cancer in women > United States.
Minorities > Health and hygiene > United States.
African Americans.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Neoplasms > history
African Americans
Health Education > history
History, 20th Century
Neoplasms > ethnology
Neoplasms > prevention & control
Women's Health
Cancer > États-Unis.
Cancer chez la femme > États-Unis.
Minorités > Santé et hygiène > États-Unis.
Noirs américains.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Santé et hygiène.
African American.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Cancer.
Cancer.
Cancer in women.
Minorities > Health and hygiene.
Schwarze
Krebs > Medizin
Ausbreitung
Krebs.
Schwarze.
Ausbreitung.
Frau.
United States
United States.
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: health awareness and the color line
  • White plague
  • Primitive's progress
  • The feminine mystique of self-examination
  • How the other half dies
  • Between progress and protest
  • The new politics of old differences
  • Conclusion: the color of cancer.

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