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Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society

Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society

9781107651463
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Unnatural History explores the change over the last two centuries from isolated, private fears to an immense individual and collective risk of breast cancer. The book begins with the experiences of a Quaker woman diagnosed with breast cancer in 1812 and ends with our problematic era in which almost every woman is waiting for the axe to fall. In between, the book traces changes in the beliefs and values of women and their doctors, medical knowledge and technology, clinical and public health practices, and the biological impact of the disease. Unnatural History suggests that we have oversold both the fear of breast cancer and the effectiveness of screening and treatment, leading to miscalculation at the individual and societal levels.
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9781107651463
9781107651463

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Publication date
2013
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
380
Dimensions (mm)
156.00 x 234.00
Weight (g)
580
  • 1. Introduction; 2. Cancer in the breast, 1813; 3. Pessimism and promise; 4. Taking responsibility for cancer; 5. Living at risk; 6. Do not delay:: the war against time; 7. Prophets of doom:: skeptics of the cancer establishment at mid-century; 8. Balancing hope, trust, and truth:: Rachel Carson; 9. The rise of surveillance; 10. Crisis in prevention; 11. Breast cancer risk:: waiting for the axe to fall.
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