| Description |
x, 302 pages ; 23 cm |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-289) and index. |
| Subject |
Breast -- Cancer -- History.
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Breast Neoplasms -- history.
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Mastectomy -- history.
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| ISBN |
0801869366 |
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