A woman's disease: the history of cervical cancer
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Main Author: Löwy, Ilana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Three Patients; 1 The Early History of Tumours of the Womb; 2 Surgical Cures for a Cancerous Uterus; 3 The Hope of Rays; 4 The Pap Smear; 5 Save the Women; 6 Cervical Cancer Becomes a Sexually Transmitted Disease; 7 Still a Woman's Scourge; Epilogue: Cervical Cancer in the Twenty-First Century; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; Notes; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.
Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. For a long time, this disease was identified with the most dreaded aspects of malignancies: prolonged invalidity and chronic pain, but also physical degradation, shame and social isolation. Cervical cancer displayed in parallel the dangers of being a woman. In the 20th century, innovations initially developed to control cervical cancer - radiotherapy and radium therapy
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 220 p.)
ISBN:0191634131
0199548811
9780191634130
9780199548811

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