| Description |
xvi, 383 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-369) 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. |
| Subject |
Breast -- Cancer -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0195142616 (alk. paper) |
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