Author: Lerner, Barron H.
Title: The Breast Cancer Wars : Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001. orig.boards. 24x16cm, xvi,383 pp. A 1cm tear to bottom edge of dedication page. Good. ¶ Contents: Establishing a Tradition: William Halstead & the Radical Mastectomy; Inventing a Curable Disease: Breast Cancer Control After World War II; The Scalpel Triumphant: Radical Surgery in the 1950s; A Heretical Interlude: Biology as Fate; Reality Check: Breast Cancer Treatment & Randomized Controlled Trials; "I Alone Am In Charge of My Body": Breast Cancer Patients in Revolt; No Shrinking Violet: Rose Kushner & the Maturation of Breast Cancer Activism; Seek & Ye Shall Find: Mammography Praised & Scorned; "The World Has Passed Us By": Science, Activism, & the Fall of the Radical Mastectomy; The Past as Prologue: What Can History of Breast Cancer Teach Us? Risky Business: Breast Cancer & Genetics; Epilogue.

Keywords: History of Medicine, Breast Neoplasms, Radical Mastectomy, Medical Sociology, Social, Cancer, United States, Surgery,