The breast cancer wars [[electronic resource] ] : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / / Barron H. Lerner
| The breast cancer wars [[electronic resource] ] : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / / Barron H. Lerner |
| Autore | Lerner Barron H |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-36717-X
9786612367175 0-19-534956-3 1-4294-6187-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451413203321 |
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The breast cancer wars [[electronic resource] ] : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / / Barron H. Lerner
| The breast cancer wars [[electronic resource] ] : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / / Barron H. Lerner |
| Autore | Lerner Barron H |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
| ISBN |
1-282-36717-X
9786612367175 0-19-534956-3 1-4294-6187-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777021303321 |
Lerner Barron H
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / / Barron H. Lerner
| The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / / Barron H. Lerner |
| Autore | Lerner Barron H |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
| ISBN |
0-19-028656-3
1-282-36717-X 9786612367175 0-19-534956-3 1-4294-6187-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910958340603321 |
Lerner Barron H
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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