A woman's disease : the history of cervical cancer / / Ilana Löwy

• Autore: Löwy Ilana <1948->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II