"A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year"--Cover. Originally published in 2002. Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-289) and index.
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 -- The breast cancer wars -- Biology, society, and destiny -- Epilogue : the new millennium.
Summary:
" ... An absorbing narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted the disease."--Back cover.
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