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Autore |
Lerner Barron H |
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Titolo |
The breast cancer wars [[electronic resource] ] : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / / Barron H. Lerner |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
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1-282-36717-X |
9786612367175 |
0-19-534956-3 |
1-4294-6187-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (408 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Breast - Cancer - United States - History - 20th century |
Mastectomy - United States - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-369) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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