A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors In the first cultural history of breast cancer, Ellen Leopold asks how sexual politics have shaped the relationship between patient and physician, and how a disease recently shrouded in secrecy has become so public.

A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century

Leopold, Ellen

History

Beacon Pr

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 At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences-one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the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.

A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Beacon Press

My Soul Is Among Lions: Pages from the Breast Cancer Archives

Valley Green Press

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