The Breast Cancer Wars : Hope, Fear, and The Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America /
Lerner, Barron H.,
The Breast Cancer Wars : Hope, Fear, and The Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America / Barron H. Lerner. - xvi, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction ; 2. Establishing a Tradition ; 3. Inventing a Curable Disease ; 4. The Scalpel Triumphant ; 5. A Heretical Interlude ; 6. Reality Check ; 7. "I Alone Am in Charge of My Body" ; 8. No Shrinking Violet ; 9. Seek and Ye Shall Find ; 10. "The World Has Passed Us By" ; 11. The Past as Prologue ; 12. Risky Business ; 13. Epilogue ; 14. Postscript.
In this narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a medical and cultural history of our century-long battle with breast cancer. Revisiting the past, Lerner argues, can illuminate and clarify the dilemmas confronted by women with, and at risk from, the disease.
0195161068 (pbk.) 9780195161069 (pbk.)
00006391
100962045
Breast--Cancer--History--United States--20th century.
616.99449 / L.B.B.
The Breast Cancer Wars : Hope, Fear, and The Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America / Barron H. Lerner. - xvi, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction ; 2. Establishing a Tradition ; 3. Inventing a Curable Disease ; 4. The Scalpel Triumphant ; 5. A Heretical Interlude ; 6. Reality Check ; 7. "I Alone Am in Charge of My Body" ; 8. No Shrinking Violet ; 9. Seek and Ye Shall Find ; 10. "The World Has Passed Us By" ; 11. The Past as Prologue ; 12. Risky Business ; 13. Epilogue ; 14. Postscript.
In this narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a medical and cultural history of our century-long battle with breast cancer. Revisiting the past, Lerner argues, can illuminate and clarify the dilemmas confronted by women with, and at risk from, the disease.
0195161068 (pbk.) 9780195161069 (pbk.)
00006391
100962045
Breast--Cancer--History--United States--20th century.
616.99449 / L.B.B.