Lerner, Barron H.

The Breast Cancer Wars : Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America

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.

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Book number: BOOKS012349I

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

Lerner, Barron H.

Contagion and confinement : controlling tuberculosis along the skid road.

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1998., Hardcover. Dustjacket. xv, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-233) and index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Offers an in-depth look at the history of tuberculosis control in the antibiotic era, arguing that the new antibiotic drugs, rather than being a simple panacea, actually highlighted the complex social problems that continued to predispose people to tuberculosis and interfere with its treatment. Uses Seattle's Firland Sanatorium as a case study, looking into the surprisingly recent use of forcible detention of tuberculosis patients whose behavior presented a public health threat. ISBN 9780801858987.

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Book number: #172791

Keywords: HISTORY OF MEDICINE,