Preventive strikes
Subtitle: women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery
By: Ilana Löwy.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801893643
Subjects: Cancer in women -- Surgery -- Social aspects; Precancerous conditions -- Surgery -- Social aspects; Breast -- Cancer -- Surgery -- Social aspects; Ovaries -- Cancer -- Surgery -- Social aspects; Social medicine; Neoplasms -- prevention & control -- France; Neoplasms -- prevention & control -- Great Britain; Neoplasms -- prevention & control -- United States; Precancerous Conditions -- surgery -- France; Precancerous Conditions -- surgery -- Great Britain; Precancerous Conditions -- surgery -- United States; Genetic Predisposition to Disease -- France; Genetic Predisposition to Disease -- Great Britain; Genetic Predisposition to Disease -- United States; History, 20th Century -- France; History, 20th Century -- Great Britain; History, 20th Century -- United States; Women's Health -- France; Women's Health -- Great Britain; Women's Health -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biopsy; title: Classifications; title: Borderline lesions; title: In situ cancers; title: The origins of screening; title: The generalization of screening; title: Heredity; title: New surgical radicalism.