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Author : Barron H. Lerner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780195161069
Chronicles the various campaigns waged against breast cancer and its effects on women during the last century.
Author : Robert Proctor,Robert N. Proctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017529285
Written by a highly regarded historian of science, this meticulouly researched, eminently fair, and very provocative book attempts to answer the question: Why, given all the time and money spent on cancer research, can't we get consistent answers to the most fundamental questions about prevention and treatment?
Author : Rose Kushner
Publisher : Warner Books (NY)
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Breast
ISBN : 0446328820
Author : Anaroma B. Romano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1425786537
Self-breast examination and annual mammography is important in detecting breast cancer in its early stage. Reporting any abnormalities of the breast early and getting treatment early is the key to survival.
Author : Devra Davis
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465010318
The War on Cancer set out to find, treat, and cure a disease. Left untouched were many of the things known to cause cancer, including tobacco, the workplace, radiation, or the global environment. Proof of how the world in which we live and work affects whether we get cancer was either overlooked or suppressed. This has been no accident. The War on Cancer was run by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products, and sometimes also profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease. Filled with compelling personalities and never-before-revealed information, The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows how we began fighting the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies-a legacy that persists to this day. This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain. A portion of the profits from this book will go to support research on cancer prevention.
Author : Lynn Redgrave
Publisher : Umbrage Editions
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Breast
ISBN : 9781884167430
A compelling documentary of treatment and recovery with an unprecedented level of intimacy.
Author : Susan Kuner
Publisher : Conari Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1573241687
Four women share their stories of spiritual and physical healing from breast cancer, challenging traditional language of "combat" with a new vocabulary of healing that combines relationship, integration, and spirit.
Author : James S. Olson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801880645
" ... An absorbing narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted the disease."--Back cover.
Author : Didier Verhoeven,Cary S. Kaufman,Sabine Siesling,Robert Mansel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Breast
ISBN : 9780198839248
Developing or existing breast cancer centres strive to provide the highest quality care possible within their current financial and personnel resources. Although the basics in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer are well known, providing, monitoring, and assessing the care offered can be challenging for most sites. Based on the work of the International Congress of Breast Disease Centres, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how to start or improve a breast unit wherever you live. Written by a multidisciplinary team of over 100 experts from 25 countries, it provides a practical guide for how to optimally organise high quality integrated breast cancer care, whilst taking into account the local economics and resources available to different countries. Each component of the care pathway, including imaging, surgery, systemic treatment, nursing, and genetic assessment, is discussed from a theoretical and practical aspect. The authors define targets to strive for, methods to assess care, and key recommendations for how to improve within existing limitations. Finally, the book looks beyond the breast care unit to consider accreditation and certification, emerging technologies, media, and the role of governments. This guide will be valuable for anyone working in the field of integrated breast cancer care, including established breast care experts, those new to the field, and policy makers interested in the social, financial, and political aspects of improving breast care quality.
Author : Ellen Leopold
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807065137
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.
Author : Samantha King
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452942636
“Samantha King explains how, beyond being an all-too-frequent and still-too-lethal disease for many women, breast cancer is a corporate dream come true.” —Herizons “Fascinating. King’s deft and thoughtful interpretation of the pink ribbon phenomenon is an important wake-up call. Going against the grain, she takes a clear-eyed look at a trend that often seems to outshine the disease that put it on the map.” —Women’s Review of Books “King’s criticisms of breast-cancer philanthropy provide a new means of looking at one of our culture’s most celebrated causes. For anyone who has ever squirreled away yogurt lids for the cause, Pink Ribbons, Inc. is food for thought.” —Bitch “A fascinating read for anyone whose life has been touched by breast cancer.” —Curve “Breast cancer advocacy is being transformed from meaningful civic participation into purchasing products. To understand the personal, social, and political costs, read this book.” —Barbara Brenner, Executive Director of Breast Cancer Action In Pink Ribbons, Inc., Samantha King traces how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship. Here, for the first time, King questions the effectiveness and legitimacy of privately funded efforts to stop the epidemic among American women. Highly revelatory-at times shocking-Pink Ribbons, Inc. challenges the commercialization of the breast cancer movement. Samantha King is associate professor of physical and health education and women’s studies at Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario
Author : Madhulika Sikka
Publisher : Crown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780385348515
A definitive and approachable guide to life during, and after, breast cancer The biggest risk factor for breast cancer is simply being a woman. Madhulika Sikka's A Breast Cancer Alphabet offers a new way to live with and plan past the hardest diagnosis that most women will ever receive: a personal, practical, and deeply informative look at the road from diagnosis to treatment and beyond. What Madhulika Sikka didn't foresee when initially diagnosed, and what this book brings to life so vividly, are the unexpected and minute challenges that make navigating the world of breast cancer all the trickier. A Breast Cancer Alphabet is an inspired reaction to what started as a personal predicament. This A-Z guide to living with breast cancer goes where so many fear to tread: sex (S is for Sex - really?), sentimentality (J is for Journey - it's a cliché we need to dispense with), hair (H is for Hair - yes, you can make a federal case of it) and work (Q is for Quitting - there'll be days when you feel like it). She draws an easy-to-follow, and quite memorable, map of her travels from breast cancer neophyte to seasoned veteran. As a prominent news executive, Madhulika had access to the most cutting edge data on the disease's reach and impact. At the same time, she craved the community of frank talk and personal insight that we rely on in life's toughest moments. This wonderfully inventive book navigates the world of science and story, bringing readers into Madhulika's mind and experience in a way that demystifies breast cancer and offers new hope for those living with it.
Author : Devra Davis
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780465015689
From the National Book Award finalist and author of "When Smoke Ran Like Water" comes this searing, haunting, and deeply personal account of how a major public health effort was diverted and distorted for private gain.
Author : David Cantor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131650868
This collection of essays explores 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. Yet, those initiatives took very different forms in different countries. Experts disagreed on how to persuade the public to go to their doctors, what should be the role of public education, how cancer services should be delivered, who should provide them, which forms of therapy were most appropriate to particular cancers, and where to draw the line between therapy and prevention. Focusing on the United States and Britain, this volume examines why these differences emerged, how they shaped national programs of control, and how control programs in the early twentieth century presaged and set the conditions for the emergence of prevention-oriented programs in the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring works by leading medical historians on subjects such as the portrayal of cancer in the movies, feminist surgeons, risk factors for breast cancer, and the emergence of clinical trials, Cancer in the Twentieth Century will engage historians of medicine and public health as well as health policy analysts, medical sociologists and anthropologists, and medical researchers and practitioners.
Author : Gayle A. Sulik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780199933990
"Updated with images and a new introduction on recent controversies"--Cover.