Lerner, Barron H. <br/><br/>
The breast cancer wars  hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America /  [electronic resource] : 
Barron H. Lerner. 
 - Oxford [U.K.] ;  Oxford University Press,  2003, c2001. 
 - 391 p. :  ill., ports. ;  22 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/> E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal  American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/ 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Establishing a tradition : William Halsted and 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 and randomized controlled trials -- "I alone am in charge of my body" : breast cancer patients in revolt -- No shrinking violet : Rose Kushner and the maturation of breast cancer activism -- Seek and ye shall find : mammography praised and scorned -- "The world has passed us by" : science, activism, and the fall of the radical mastectomy -- The past as prologue : what can the history of breast cancer teach us? -- Risky business : breast cancer and genetics. 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>2027/heb05768  hdl 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--Cancer--Treatment--History.--United States--Cancer--Surgery--History.--United States--Cancer--Patients--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Breast Breast Breast