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Autore |
Löwy Ilana <1948-> |
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Titolo |
A woman's disease : the history of cervical cancer / / Ilana Löwy |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-163414-X |
1-280-59523-X |
9786613625069 |
0-19-163413-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (231 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cervix uteri - Cancer - History |
Cervix uteri - Cancer - Social aspects - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Three Patients; 1 The Early History of Tumours of the Womb; 2 Surgical Cures for a Cancerous Uterus; 3 The Hope of Rays; 4 The Pap Smear; 5 Save the Women; 6 Cervical Cancer Becomes a Sexually Transmitted Disease; 7 Still a Woman's Scourge; Epilogue: Cervical Cancer in the Twenty-First Century; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; Notes; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. For a long time, this disease was identified with the most dreaded aspects of malignancies: prolonged invalidity and chronic pain, but also physical degradation, shame and social isolation. Cervical cancer displayed in parallel the dangers of being a woman. In the 20th century, innovations initially developed to control cervical cancer - radiotherapy and radium therapy, |
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