A woman's disease : the history of cervical cancer /
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 aspec...
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| Format: | Livre |
| Langue: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2011.
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| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | ix, 220 pages: illustrations; 20 cm. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-213) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199548811 (alk. paper) 0199548811 (alk. paper) |