Can I read The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America on EtoBox?

The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America by Lerner, Barron H. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America about?

In this riveting narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a superb medical and cultural history of our century-long battle with breast cancer. Revisiting the past, Lerner argues, can illuminate and clarify the dilemmas confronted by women with--and at risk for--the disease. <p>Writing with insight and compassion, Lerner tells a compelling story of influential surgeons, anxious patients and committed activists. There are colorful portraits of the leading figures, ranging from the acerbic Dr. William Halsted, who pioneered the disfiguring radical mastectomy at the turn of the century to George Crile, Jr., the Cleveland surgeon who shocked the medical establishment by "going public" with his doubts about mastectomy, to Rose Kushner, a brash journalist who relentlessly educated American women about breast cancer. Lerner offers a fascinating account of the breast cancer wars: the insistent efforts of physicians to vanquish the "enemy"; the fights waged by feminists and maverick doctors to combat a paternalistic legacy that discouraged decision-making by patients; and the struggles of statisticians and researchers to generate definitive data in the face of the great risks and uncertainties ra

Who reads The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America?

Author

Lerner, Barron H.

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195161069

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Science

Rating

3.93 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14