The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
Author: Barron H. Lerner Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Keywords: Gynecology ISBN: 0195161068
Book description In this riveting narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a superb medical and cultural history of our century-long battle with breast cancer. Revisiting the past, Lerner argues, can illuminate and clarify the dilemmas confronted by women with-and at risk for-the disease. Writing with insight and compassion, Lerner tells a compelling story of influential surgeons, anxious patients and committed activists. There are colorful portraits of the leading figures, ranging from the acerbic Dr. William Halsted, who pioneered the disfiguring radical mastectomy at the turn of the century to George Crile, Jr., the Cleveland surgeon who shocked the medical establishment by "going public" with his doubts about…
Book review: Frightening and fascinating. You must read it. Before signing the consent forms for my lumpectomy, I asked my surgeon if there was a possibility that I might wake up from my operation without a breast. "No, " he said, "we don't do that any… Barron Lerner's " Breast Cancer Wars" joins Ellen Leopold's " Darker Ribbon" as an eyeopening look backstage at the Breast Cancer Follies in America. They are both important books, and make many of the… |
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