Bathsheba's breast : women, cancer & history / James S. Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, James Stuart, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breast--Cancer--History.

Breast.

Cancer--History.

Cancer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

PROLOGUE Across Time

CHAPTER TWO "Unkindest Cut of All" THE ORIGINS OF THE MASTECTOMY

CHAPTER THREE William Stewart Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy

CHAPTER FOUR Superradicals and the Medicine of Mutilation

CHAPTER FIVE New Beginnings ASSULT ON THE RADICAL MASTECTOMY

CHAPTER SIX Beauty and the Breast THE GREAT AMERICAN OBSESSION

CHAPTER SEVEN Out of the Closet BREAST CANCER IN THE 1970'S

CHAPTER EIGHT Patient Heal Thyself QUACKS AND CURES IN THE AGE OF NARCISSISM

CHAPTER NINE Choices MEDICAL TREATMENT IN THE AGE OF LIBERATION

CHAPTER TEN The Breast Cancer Wars

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Breast Cancer Wars

Epilogue THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-289) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7662-1

OCLC:

51481091