The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / Barron...
The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / Barron...
The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / Barron H. Lerner.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Date
2001.
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N616.99449/40
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English
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xvi, 383 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 randomize...
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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New York (State)
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2001.
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The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America / Barron H. Lerner.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N616.99449/40
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0195161068
9780195142617
0195142616
9780195142617 (alk. paper)
0195142616 (alk. paper)
9780195161069
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616.994490973
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991013985959702626
