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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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.99/449/00973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Breast - Cancer - United States - History - 20th century |
| Mastectomy - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-369) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The breast cancer wars |
| ISBN: | 1-282-36717-X |
| 9786612367175 | |
| 0-19-534956-3 | |
| 1-4294-6187-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777021303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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