The first cultural history of breast cancer, this book examines the social attitudes and medical treatments that together defined the modern relationship between women with the disease and their doctors. At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences-one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the radical mastectomy, and the other between Rachel Carson, who was writing Silent Spring as she was battling breast cancer, and her personal physician George Crile, Jr.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-13
9780807065136
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96063790
Product Key Features
Book Title
A Darker Ribbon: a Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors
Author
Ellen Leopold
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Medical Services, Coping with Illness
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
150mm
Item Weight
482g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ellen Leopold
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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