Cancer in the twentieth century / edited by David Cantor.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Description
vi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Availability

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status Location Service Notes
ReCAP - Remote StorageRC261 .C36 2008 Browse related items Request

    Details

    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction. Cancer Control and Prevention in the Twentieth Century / David Cantor
    • Pt. I. Between Education and Marketing
    • 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
    • Pt. II. Therapeutics
    • The "Ineffable Freemasonry of Sex": Feminist Surgeons and the Establishment of Radiotherapy in Early Twentieth-Century Britain / Ornelia 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 and Alberto Cambrosio
    • Ill Patient, Public Activist: Rose Kushner's Attack on Breast Cancer Chemotherapy / Barron H. Lerner
    • Pt. III. Prevention and Risk
    • Breast Cancer and the "Materiality of Risk": The Rise of Morphological Prediction / Ilana Lowy
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9780801888670
    • 0801888670
    LCCN
    2007940407
    OCLC
    183263998
    RCP
    C - S
    Statement on language in description
    Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...

    Supplementary Information