Bathsheba's breast : women, cancer, and history
Olson concludes that, although it has not yet been conquered, breast cancer is no longer the story of individual women struggling alone against a mysterious and deadly foe.
Print Book, English, ©2002
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©2002
History
x, 302 s. ; 23 cm
9780801869365, 9780801880643, 0801869366, 0801880645
186453370
Contents: Preface Acknowledgments Prologue ACROSS TIME 1. Dark Ages 2. "Unkindest Cut of All" THE ORIGINS OF THE MASTECTOMY 3. William Stewert Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy 4. Superradicals and the Medicine of Mutilation 5. New Beginnings ASSAULT ON THE RADICAL MASTECTOMY 6. Beauty and the Breast THE GREAT AMERICAN OBSESSION 7. Out of the Closet BREAST CANCER IN THE 1970'S 8. Patient Heal Thyself QUACKS AND CURES IN THE AGE OF NARCISSISM 9. Choices MEDICAL TREATMENT IN THE AGE OF LIBERATION 10. The Breast Cancer Wars 11. Biology, Society, and Destiny Epilogue THE NEW MILLENIUM Notes Index