The breast cancer wars [electronic resource] : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / Barron H. Lern er.
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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003, c 2001.Description: 391 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Establishing a tradition : William Halsted and the radical mastectom y -- Inventing a curable disease : breast cancer control after World Wa r II -- The scalpel triumphant : radical surgery in the 1950s -- A here tical interlude : biology as fate -- Reality check : breast cancer trea tment and randomized controlled trials -- "I alone am in charge of my b ody" : breast cancer patients in revolt -- No shrinking violet : Rose K ushner and the maturation of breast cancer activism -- Seek and ye shal l find : mammography praised and scorned -- "The world has passed us by " : science, activism, and the fall of the radical mastectomy -- The pa st as prologue : what can the history of breast cancer teach us? -- Ris ky business : breast cancer and genetics.
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 a ccess: Intranet.
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