Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Disease, Difference, and the Color Line Ch 1 White Plague: Vulnerable Women and the Birth of Cancer Awareness in the Early Twentieth Century Ch 2 Primitive's Progress: From Savage Immunities to a New Deal in African-American Health Ch 3 Soldiering On: Popular Consciousness and the Feminine Mystique of Self-Surveillance in the Cold War Era Ch 4 How the Other Half Dies: "Nonwhites," Racial Labels, and the Rise of a Democratic Disease in 1950s Ch 5 Between Progress and Protest: Patients, the Survival Gap, and the Racial Transformation of the Cancer Establishment in the Sixties and Seventies Ch 6 The New Politics of Old Differences: Health Crises and Ethnic Divisions in the 1990s Conclusion:The Color of Cancer.
Summary:
"Examining a century of twists and turns in anti-cancer campaigns, this path-breaking study shows how American cancer awareness, prevention, treatment, and survival have been refracted through the lens of race. As cancer went from being a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color, experts and the lay public interpreted these trends as lessons about women, men, and the color line. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks cancer's transformation--how theories of risk evolved with changes in women's roles and African-American and new immigrant migration trends, with the growth of federal cancer surveillance, economic depression and world war, and with diagnostic advances, racial protest, and contemporary health activism. A pioneering study of health communication in America, the book skillfully documents how race and gender became central motifs in the birth of cancer awareness, how patterns and perceptions changed, and how the "war on cancer" continues to be waged along the color line"--Provided by publisher.
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