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Cancer in the twentieth century / edited by David Cantor.
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English
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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vi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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RC261 .C36 2008
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Summary note
This collection of essays explores the efforts to control and prevent cancer in North America and Europe. On both sides of the Atlantic, control programs emerged in the early twentieth century and most were focused on early detection and treatment.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Uncertain enthusiasm: the American Cancer Society, public education, and the problems of the movie, 1921-1960 / David Cantor
"For Jimmy and the boys and girls of America": publicizing childhood cancers in twentieth-century America / Gretchen Krueger
Dark victory: cancer and popular Hollywood film / Susan E. Lederer
"Cancer as the general population knows It": knowledge, fear, and lay education in 1950s Britain / Elizabeth Toon
The "ineffable freemasonry of sex": feminist surgeons and the establishment of radiotherapy in early twentieth-century Britain / Ornella Moscucci
Contested cumulations: configurations of cancer treatments through the twentieth century / John V. Pickstone
Cancer clinical trials: the emergence and development of a new style of practice / Peter Keating, Alberto Cambrosio
Ill patient, public activist: Rose Kushner's attack on breast cancer chemotherapy / Barron H. Lerner
Breast cancer and the "materiality of risk": the rise of morphological prediction / Ilana Lōwy
From cancer families to HNPCC: Henry Lynch and the transformations of hereditary cancer, 1975-1999 / Raul Necochea
Medicine and the public: the 1962 report of the Royal College of Physicians and the new public health / Virginia Berridge
As depressing as it was predictable? Lung cancer, clinical trials, and the Medical Research Council in postwar Britain / Carsten Timmermann.
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ISBN
9780801888670 ((alk. paper))
0801888670 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2007940407
OCLC
183263998
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