Preventive Strikes Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery

Name: Preventive Strikes Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery
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ISBN: 9780801893643

ISBN-10: 080189364X

ISBN-13: 9780801893643

Edition: 2009

Authors: Ilana Lï¿½wy, Ilana Lï¿½wy

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Modern scientific tools can identify a genetic predisposition to cancer before any detectable disease is present. Some women will never develop breast or ovarian cancer, but they nevertheless must decide, as a result of genetic testing, whether to have their breasts and ovaries removed to avoid the possibility of disease. The striking contrast between the sophistication of diagnosis and the crudeness of preventive surgery forms the basis of historian Ilana Löwy's important study.Löwy traces the history of prophylactic amputations through a century of preventive treatment and back to a long tradition of surgical management of gynecological problems. In the early 20th century, surgeons came…

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List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 1/18/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.298



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Embodied Risk



One Biopsy



Two Classifications



Borderline Lesions



In Situ Cancers



The Origins of Screening



The Generalization of Screening



Heredity



The New Surgical Radicalism


Conclusion: Uncertainty


Notes


Index