- Additional Authors
- American Council of Learned Societies.
- Found In
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
- Description
- 391 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.
- Uniform Title
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic text and image data.
- 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.
- OCLC
- (dli)HEB05768
- 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.
- Series
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
American Council of Learned Societies.
- Found In:
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
- Other Form:
Original 9780195161069 0195161068 (DLC) 00006391