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The Breast Cancer Wars : Hope, Fear, and The Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America / Barron H. Lerner.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Description: xvi, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195161068 (pbk.)
  • 9780195161069 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.99449 23 L.B.B.
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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