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A darker ribbon : breast cancer, women, and their doctors in the twentieth century
- Author
- Leopold, Ellen, 1944-
- Title
- A darker ribbon : breast cancer, women, and their doctors in the twentieth century / Ellen Leopold.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Boston : Beacon Press, [1999] ©1999
- Description
- xi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- The prehistory of breast cancer
- The dominance of surgery
- A really hideous mutilation : the radical mastectomy in the correspondence of a breast cancer patient and her surgeon, William Stewart Halsted, 1917-22
- A private little hell : the letters of Rachel Carson and Dr. George Crile, Jr., 1960-64
- The battle for the breast
- Breast cancer within the history of the women's health movement
- From the closet to the commonplace, 1945-75
- At the close of the century
- The last word : obituaries.
- Subject headings
- Breast--Cancer--History--20th century. Breast--Cancer--Social aspects.
- Kinsey subjects
- Cancer.
- ISBN
- 9780807065129