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Unnatural History:

Breast Cancer and American Society
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Cambridge University Press, Oct 8, 2007 - History - 366 pages
In the early nineteenth century in the United States, cancer in the breast was a rare disease. Now it seems that breast cancer is everywhere. Written by a medical historian who is also a doctor, Unnatural History tells how and why this happened. Rather than there simply being more disease, breast cancer has entered the bodies of so many American women and the concerns of nearly all the rest, mostly as a result of how we have detected, labeled, and responded to the disease. The book traces changing definitions and understandings of breast cancer, the experience of breast cancer sufferers, clinical and public health practices, and individual and societal fears.
  

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Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Cancer in the Breast 1813
21
3 Pessimism and Promise
51
4 Taking Responsibility for Cancer
86
5 Living at Risk
115
The War Against Time
144
Skeptics of the Cancer Establishment at MidCentury
163
Rachel Carson
183
9 The Rise of Surveillance
210
10 Crisis in Prevention
235
Waiting for the Axe to Fall
256
Notes
285
Index
347
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

Robert A. Aronowitz studied linguistics before receiving his M.D. from Yale. After finishing residency in Internal Medicine, he studied the history of medicine as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Aronowitz is currently Associate Professor in the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He continues to practise medicine, holding a joint appointment with the medical school's department of Family Practice and Community Medicine. Dr. Aronowitz was the founding director of Penn's Health and Societies program. He also co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, a post-doctoral program focused on population health. In 2005-2006, he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Dr. Aronowitz's central research interests are in the history of 20th-century disease, epidemiology, and population health. He is the author of Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease (Cambridge, 1998). Dr Aronowitz is currently working on a historical project on the social framing of health risks, for which he received an Investigator Award in Health Policy from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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TitleUnnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society
Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
AuthorRobert A. Aronowitz
Editionillustrated
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2007
ISBN0521822491, 9780521822497
Length366 pages
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Health & Fitness / Women's Health
History / World
Medical / History
Medical / Oncology
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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