Bathsheba's breast : women, cancer & history / / James S. Olson
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| Autore: |
Olson James Stuart <1946->
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| Titolo: |
Bathsheba's breast : women, cancer & history / / James S. Olson
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.99/449/009 |
| Soggetto topico: | Breast - Cancer - History |
| Cancer - History | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-289) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE Across Time -- CHAPTER TWO "Unkindest Cut of All" THE ORIGINS OF THE MASTECTOMY -- CHAPTER THREE William Stewart Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy -- CHAPTER FOUR Superradicals and the Medicine of Mutilation -- CHAPTER FIVE New Beginnings ASSULT ON THE RADICAL MASTECTOMY -- CHAPTER SIX Beauty and the Breast THE GREAT AMERICAN OBSESSION -- CHAPTER SEVEN Out of the Closet BREAST CANCER IN THE 1970'S -- CHAPTER EIGHT Patient Heal Thyself QUACKS AND CURES IN THE AGE OF NARCISSISM -- CHAPTER NINE Choices MEDICAL TREATMENT IN THE AGE OF LIBERATION -- CHAPTER TEN The Breast Cancer Wars -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Breast Cancer Wars -- Epilogue THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- Notes -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Olson concludes that, although it has not yet been conquered, breast cancer is no longer the story of individual women struggling alone against a mysterious and deadly foe. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bathsheba's breast |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-7662-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822061403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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