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A darker ribbon : breast cancer, women, and their doctors in the twentieth century Cover Image Book Book

A darker ribbon : breast cancer, women, and their doctors in the twentieth century

Leopold, Ellen 1944- (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0807065129 (acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 9780807065129 (acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 0807065137
  • ISBN: 9780807065136
  • Physical Description: print
    xi, 334 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c1999.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-327) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The Prehistory of Breast Cancer -- The Dominance of Surgery -- "A Really Hideous Mutilation": The Radical Mastectomy in the Correspondence of a Breast Cancer Patient and her Surgeon, William Stewart Halsted, 1917-22 -- "A Private Little Hell": the Letters of Rachel Carson and Dr. George Crile, Jr., 1960-64 -- The Battle for the Breast -- Breast Cancer within the History of the Women's Health Movements -- From the Closet to the Commonplace, 1945-75 -- At the Close of the Century -- The Last Word: Obituaries.

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Subject: Breast Cancer History 20th century
Breast Cancer Social aspects
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Women's Health United States
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Brustkrebs
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Medizinische Versorgung

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