The breast cancer wars
Subtitle: hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America
By: Barron H. Lerner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780195142617
Subjects: Cancer; Brustkrebs; Histoire; Geschichte 1900-2000; Breast Neoplasms; Breast; Surgery; History; Mastectomy; Sein; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: Establishing a tradition : William Halsted and the radical mastectomy; title: Inventing a curable disease : breast cancer control after World War II; title: The scalpel triumphant : radical surgery in the 1950s; title: A heretical interlude : biology as fate; title: Reality check : breast cancer treatment and randomized controlled trials; title: "I alone am in charge of my body" : breast cancer patients in revolt; title: No shrinking violet : Rose Kushner and the maturation of breast cancer activism; title: Seek and ye shall find : mammography praised and scorned; title: "The world has passed us by" : science, activism, and the fall of the radical mastectomy; title: The past as prologue : what can the history of breast cancer teach us?; title: Risky business : breast cancer and genetics.