A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors - Couverture souple

Leopold, Ellen

 
9780807065136: A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0807065137 ISBN 13 : 9780807065136
Editeur : Beacon Press, 2000

Synopsis

The first cultural history of breast cancer, this book examines the social attitudes and medical treatments that together defined the modern relationship between women with the disease and their doctors. At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences-one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the radical mastectomy, and the other between Rachel Carson, who was writing Silent Spring as she was battling breast cancer, and her personal physician George Crile, Jr.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ellen Leopold is a member of the Women's Community Cancer Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has written breast cancer and women's health-care articles for The Nation, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe, among others.

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Éditeur
Beacon Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807065137
ISBN 13 
9780807065136
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
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Personne responsable
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