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1 online resource |
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Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history |
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Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history.
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Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Cancer: A 'Female' Disease; Explaining People's Liability to Cancer; Women's Proclivity to Cancer; A Geography of Women's Cancers: Alfred Haviland's Geological Theory; Hunting for the Cancer Microbe; Gender Differentials in Cancer Mortality: A Narrowing Gap?; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: The Making of a 'Hopeful' Cancer; Uterine Cancer in the Nineteenth Century: A Hopeless, Fatal Disease; The Meanings of Incurability; The Problem of Diagnosing 'Early' Uterine Cancer |
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The Microscope Comes to the Aid (or Not)'Early' Uterine Cancer and Surgical Curability Before 1860; The Second Wave of Surgical Activism, c.1860-1880; The Revival of Total Abdominal Hysterectomy for Uterine Cancer; A Question of Comparisons; Vaginal Hysterectomy: A Story of Unfulfilled Promise; Redefining the Meaning of Cure; Critiques of Vaginal Hysterectomy; The Notion of 'Delay'; Improving Operability; The Controversy in Context; A Message of Hope; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Gender and Cancer Awareness Campaigns in England, c.1900-1948; The Crusade Agaist Cancer of the Uterus |
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Tuberculosis and Cancer ComparedPreventing Mortality; Methods and Strategies; The First Campaign Against Uterine Cancer; Public Education Between the Wars: The Changing Context of a Contested Idea; Confusing Messages; Public Campaigns and Service Provision; Gender, Cancer and the Medical Officer of Health; An Alternative Model: The Yorkshire Campaign; The BECC Finally Enters the Field; Post-War Developments; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Published Sources; Chapter 5: The Gendered Politics of Radiotherapy; The Dawn of Radiation Therapy: X-rays; The Dawn of Radiation Therapy: Radium |
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Radium in GynaecologyStandardizing Therapy; The Case for Centralization; The MWF's Radium Research Scheme; The Marie Curie Hospital; Scalpel or Rays? The Statistical Debate; Comparing Treatment Outcomes: The Origins of the 'Staging' Concept; Cancer in Women: Radium Therapy for the London Poor; Another Sort of Cumulation: Radiotherapy with Surgery; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Published Sources; Chapter 6: Visions of Utopia; What Is 'Latent' Carcinoma of the Cervix?; Schiller's Test; Hinselmann's Colposcope; Diagnosing Cervical Cancer from Cells; 'Screening' for Disease in America |
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The Vaginal Smear: From Diagnostic to Screening TestBritish Attitudes to Screening; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Managing Cancer Risk: The Role of Prophylactic Surgery; A Stitch in Time; Primum: Non Nocere; Redundant Organs; Circumcision: Surgical Vaccine or Mutilation?; The Controversial Ovary; The Pre-Cancerous Uterus; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Bibliography; Primary Bibliography; Secondary Bibliography; Index |
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"Moscucci's work displays the complex links between cancer and gender, sheds new light on previously investigated topics and opens new areas of investigation. This highly stimulating and carefully researched study is a valuable addition to the growing literature on the history of cancer."--Löwy Ilana, Inserm, Paris Descartes University, France This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, medical and public health efforts to reduce cancer mortality since 1900 have prominently targeted women's cancers. Women have also been key participants in the 'war' on cancer through their various roles as medical practitioners, midwives, nurses, health visitors, radiotherapists and cytotechnicians. Moscucci's study traces this complex history from the establishment of 'early detection and treatment' policies aimed at cervical cancer, to the controversial development of prophylactic oophorectomy as a strategy for the prevention of ovarian cancer. Women's cancers are highly visible in modern English society as symbols of progress in cancer therapy and prevention. The account offered in this volume reveals a different story, marked by hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 1, 2017) |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Sex factors -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Cancer -- Sex factors -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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History: earliest times to present day.
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British & Irish history.
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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Social & cultural history.
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European history.
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HISTORY -- Civilization.
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HISTORY -- Essays.
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HISTORY -- Reference.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Cancer -- Sex factors
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Great Britain
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781349601097 |
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1349601098 |
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