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The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in Twentieth-century America / Barron H. Lerner.
- Title
- The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in Twentieth-century America / Barron H. Lerner.
- Author
- Lerner, Barron H.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RC280.B8 L375 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 383 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Establishing a Tradition: William Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy -- 3. Inventing a Curable Disease: Breast Cancer Control after World War II -- 4. The Scalpel Triumphant: Radical Surgery in the 1950s -- 5. A Heretical Interlude: Biology as Fate -- 6. Reality Check: Breast Cancer Treatment and Randomized Controlled Trials -- 7. "I Alone Am in Charge of My Body": Breast Cancer Patients in Revolt -- 8. No Shrinking Violet: Rose Kushner and the Maturation of Breast Cancer Activism -- 9. Seek and Ye Shall Find: Mammography Praised and Scorned -- 10. "The World Has Passed Us By": Science, Activism, and the Fall of the Radical Mastectomy -- 11. The Past as Prologue: What Can the History of Breast Cancer Teach Us? -- 12. Risky Business: Breast Cancer and Genetics -- 13. Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0195142616 (alk. paper)
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries