Breast Cancer Wars Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America

Name: Breast Cancer Wars Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780195161069

ISBN-10: 0195161068

ISBN-13: 9780195161069

Edition: 2003

Authors: Barron H. Lerner

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In this riveting narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a superb 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 for, the disease. Writing with insight and compassion, Lerner tells a compelling story of influential surgeons, anxious patients and committed activists. There are colourful portraits of the leading figures, ranging from the acerbic Dr. William Halsted, who pioneered the disfiguring radical mastectomy at the turn of the century to George Crile, Jr., the Cleveland surgeon who shocked the medical establishment by "going public" with his doubts…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations



Introduction



Establishing a Tradition: William Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy



Inventing a Curable Disease: Breast Cancer Control after WorldWar 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



Epilogue



Postscript


Glossary of Breast Cancer Operations


Sources


Notes


Index