TY  - GEN
AU  - Lerner,Barron H.
TI  - The breast cancer wars: hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America 
PY  - 2003///, c2001
CY  - Oxford [U.K.]
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Treatment
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Surgery
KW  - Patients
KW  - Breast
N1  - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb05768
ER  -