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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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Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.99466 |
Soggetto topico: | Cervix uteri - Cancer - History |
Cervix uteri - Cancer - Social aspects - History | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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, |
Titolo autorizzato: | A woman's disease ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-163414-X |
1-280-59523-X | |
9786613625069 | |
0-19-163413-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823872903321 |
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