Bathsheba''s Breast - Women, Cancer, and History

Informationen zum Autor James S. Olson is the Texas State University System Regents Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. He has written and edited dozens of books, including Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History , also published by Johns Hopkins. Klappentext Zusammenfassung Olson concludes that! although it has not yet been conquered! breast cancer is no longer the story of individual women struggling alone against a mysterious and deadly foe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface Acknowledgments Prologue ACROSS TIME 1. Dark Ages 2. "Unkindest Cut of All" THE ORIGINS OF THE MASTECTOMY 3. William Stewert Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy 4. Superradicals and the Medicine of Mutilation 5. New Beginnings ASSAULT ON THE RADICAL MAST...

Product details

• Authors: James S. Olson, James S. (Distinguished Professor and Chair Olson, James Stuart Olson
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.2005
• EAN: 9780801880643
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8064-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine