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The breast cancer wars: hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America
Barron H Lerner
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Frontmatter
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Preface (page xi)
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Abbreviations (page 2)
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1 Introduction (page 3)
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2 Establishing a Tradition William Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy (page 15)
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3 Inventing a Curable Disease Breast Cancer Control after World War II (page 41)
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4 The Scalpel Triumphant Radical Surgery in the 1950s (page 69)
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5 A Heretical Interlude Biology as Fate (page 92)
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6 Reality Check Breast Cancer Treatment and Randomized Controlled Trials (page 115)
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7 "I Alone Am in Charge of My Body" Breast Cancer Patients in Revolt (page 141)
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8 No Shrinking Violet Rose Kushner and the Maturation of Breast Cancer Activism (page 170)
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9 Seek and Ye Shall Find Mammography Praised and Scorned (page 196)
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10 "The World Has Passed Us By" Science, Activism, and the Fall of the Radical Mastectomy (page 223)
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11 The Past as Prologue What Can the History of Breast Cancer Teach Us? (page 241)
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12 Risky Business Breast Cancer and Genetics (page 276)
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13 Epilogue (page 291)
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14 Postscript (page 297)
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Sources (page 305)
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Notes (page 309)
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Index (page 379)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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RAH | 30.1 (Mar. 2002): 114-123 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/30031722 |
BMJ | 323.7304 (Jul. 2001): 115 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25467390 |
AS | 90.1 (Jan. - Feb. 2002): 90 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27857611 |
WSQ | 31.1/2 (Spring - Summer 2003): 256-261 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40004570 |
JAH | 89.1 (Jun. 2002): 318-319 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2700933 |
WRB | 19.2 (Nov. 2001): 13-14 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4023772 |
SIS | 95.4 (Dec. 2004): 728-729 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/432334 |
AHR | 106.5 (Dec. 2001): 1819 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2692824 |
JHMAS | 57.3 (July 2002): 368-369 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_medicine_and_allied_sciences/v057/57.3humphreys.html |
JHPPL | 27.6,(Dec. 2002): 1037-1039 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_health_politics_policy_and_law/v027/27.6casamayou.html |
BHM | 76.1 (Spring 2002): 179-180 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/v076/76.1proctor.html |
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Published: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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