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100 1  $a Olson, James Stuart, $d 1946-
245 1  $a Bathsheba's breast : $b women, cancer & history / $c James S. Olson.
250    $a Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
264  1 $a Baltimore :  $b Johns Hopkins University Press,  $c 2004.
300    $a x, 302 pages ; $c 23 cm.
500    $a "A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year"--Cover.
500    $a Originally published in 2002.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-289) and index.
505    $a 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 -- The breast cancer wars -- Biology, society, and destiny -- Epilogue : the new millennium.
520    $a " ... An absorbing narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted the disease."--Back cover.
541    $d 20190910.
650    $a Breast $x History. $x History.
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