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Unnatural history : breast cancer and American society

Title
  1. Unnatural history : breast cancer and American society / Robert A. Aronowitz.
Published by
  1. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2007], ©2007.
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  2. Publisher description
  3. Inhaltsverzeichnis
  4. Contributor biographical information
  5. Publisher description
Author
  1. Aronowitz, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1953-

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Description
  1. xi, 366 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. In the early nineteenth century in the United States, cancer in the breast was a rare disease. Now it seems that breast cancer is everywhere. Written by a medical historian who is also a doctor, Unnatural History tells how and why this happened. Rather than there simply being more disease, breast cancer has entered the bodies of so many American women and the concerns of nearly all the rest, mostly as a result of how we have detected, labeled, and responded to the disease. The book traces changing definitions and understandings of breast cancer, the experience of breast cancer sufferers, clinical and public health practices, and individual and societal fears.
Subject
  1. Geschichte 1812-2007
  2. Breast > History. > United States
  3. Breast > Social aspects > United States
  4. Breast Neoplasms > history
  5. Attitude to Health
  6. Breast Neoplasms > epidemiology
  7. Breast Neoplasms > psychology
  8. History, 19th Century
  9. History, 20th Century
  10. Sein > États-Unis
  11. Tumeurs du sein > États Unis d'Amérique
  12. Attitude envers la santé > États Unis d'Amérique
  13. Breast > Cancer
  14. Breast > Social aspects
  15. Sein > Histoire > États-Unis
  16. Sein > Aspect social > États-Unis
  17. Brustkrebs
  18. Sozialgeschichte
  19. Sozialmedizin
  20. United States
  21. USA
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Cancer in the breast, 1813 -- Pessimism and promise -- Taking responsibility for cancer -- Living at risk -- "Do not delay": the war against time -- "Prophets of doom": skeptics of the cancer establishment at mid-century -- Balancing hope, trust, and truth: Rachel Carson -- The rise of surveillance -- Crisis in prevention -- Breast cancer risk: "waiting for the axe to fall."
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-345) and index.