Bathsheba's breast : women, cancer & history /
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue : across time
- Dark ages
- Unkindest cut of all : the origins of the mastectomy
- William Stewart Halsted and the radical mastectomy
- Superradicals and the medicine of mutilation
- New beginnings : assault on the radical mastectomy
- Beauty and the breast : the great American obsession
- Out of the closet : breast cancer in the 1970s
- Patient heal thyself : quacks and cures in the age of narcissism
- Choices : medical treatment in the age of liberation
- Breast cancer wars
- Biology, society, and destiny
- Epilogue : the new millenium.