Bathsheba's breast : women, cancer & history

Bathsheba's breast : women, cancer & history / James S. Olson.

Author/creator	Olson, James Stuart, 1946-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2002.
Description	x, 302 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)	Breast Neoplasms--history. Mastectomy--history.

Contents	Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue : across time -- Dark ages -- Unkindest cut of all : the origins of the mastectomy -- William Stewart Halsted and the radical mastectomy -- Superradicals and the medicine of mutilation -- New beginnings : assault on the radical mastectomy -- Beauty and the breast : the great American obsession -- Out of the closet : breast cancer in the 1970s -- Patient heal thyself : quacks and cures in the age of narcissism -- Choices : medical treatment in the age of liberation -- Breast cancer wars -- Biology, society, and destiny -- Epilogue : the new millenium.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-289) and index.
LCCN	2001006265
ISBN	0801869366 :

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Laupus	Books - Stacks	WP 11.1 O52B 2002	✔ Available	Place Hold