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Author Lerner, Barron H.

Title The breast cancer wars [electronic resource] : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / Barron H. Lerner.

Imprint Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003, c2001.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 391 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Breast -- Cancer -- Treatment -- United States -- History.
Breast -- Cancer -- Surgery -- United States -- History.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 9780195161069 0195161068 (DLC) 00006391
Standard No. 2027/heb05768 hdl

 
    
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