The breast cancer wars [electronic resource] : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / Barron H. Lerner.
2003
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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.
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Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003, ©2001.
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391 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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.
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
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United States -- New York (State).
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