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Preventive strikes : women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery / Ilana Lowy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowy, Ilana, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer in women--Surgery--Social aspects.
- Cancer in women.
- Precancerous conditions--Surgery--Social aspects.
- Precancerous conditions.
- Breast--Cancer--Surgery--Social aspects.
- Breast.
- Ovaries--Cancer--Surgery--Social aspects.
- Ovaries.
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- Preventive Strikes aims to improve our understanding of professional, social, and cultural responses to cancer in the twenty-first century and to inform our reflections about how values are incorporated into routine medical practices.Ilana Löwy.
- Contents:
- Biopsy
- Classifications
- Borderline lesions
- In situ cancers
- The origins of screening
- The generalization of screening
- Heredity
- New surgical radicalism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9869-2
- OCLC:
- 647917326
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