| A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors Contributor(s): Leopold, Ellen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807065137 ISBN-13: 9780807065136 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: This first cultural history of the social attitudes and treatments surrounding breast cancer in the past century powerfully examines the relationship between women 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 At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences -- one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Cancer - Health & Fitness | Women's Health - General |
| Dewey: 616.994 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.99" W x 8.98" (1.00 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences-one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the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. |
