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Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.5999449
EAN: 9780521822497
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0521822491
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 378
Publication Date: October 08, 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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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.
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.
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Rating: - Moving and Thoughtful History of Medicine
This is a moving and thoughtful book that packs a lot into relatively few pages. It has haunted me for months since I read it. It is a nuanced, non-polemical account of the hidden dialectic (hidden, at least, to us laymen) between surgeons and internists, family physicians and researchers, counselors and advocates, about what cancer means and how to respond to it. Aronowitz moves skillfully back and forth between broad-stroke history of medical technology and the famous researchers of the past ... Read More
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