A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their DoctorsThe 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 At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences-one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the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. |
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A DARKER RIBBON: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century
User Review - KirkusA cultural history of breast cancer that focuses primarily on how social acceptance of the unequal roles of men and women has impeded progress in a woman's disease. Leopold, a writer on women's health ... Read full review
A darker ribbon: breast cancer, women, and their doctors in the twentieth century
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictBreast cancer strikes 182,000 American women annually, but public awareness of this disease is a recent phenomenon. Here, Leopold, a sociologist and a breast cancer survivor, examines the cultural ... Read full review
Contents
The Prehistory of Breast Cancer | 23 |
The Dominance of Surgery | 45 |
Part Two | 83 |
A Really Hideous Mutilation The Radical Mastectomy in the Correspondence of a Breast Cancer Patient and Her Surgeon William Stewart Halsted 19... | 85 |
A Little Private Hell The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dr George Crile Jr 196064 | 111 |
Part Three | 151 |
The Battle for the Breast | 153 |
Breast Cancer within the History of the Womens Health Movements | 188 |
From the Closet to the Commonplace 194575 | 215 |
At the Close of the Century | 243 |
Obituaries | 275 |
Notes | 285 |
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| Title | A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors |
| Author | Ellen Leopold |
| Publisher | Beacon Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0807065137, 9780807065136 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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