Chronicles the various campaigns waged against breast cancer and its effects on women during the last century.

" ... An absorbing narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted the disease."--Back cover.

Introduction : what's the harm? -- The discovery of drunk driving -- Science and government enter the fray -- The MADD mothers take charge -- The movement matures and splinters ...

In Contagion and Confinement, Barron H. Lerner offers the first in-depth look at the history of tuberculosis control in the antibiotic era, providing a vital account of this ...

The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care As a practicing ...

In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer ...

Dispelling the common notion that American women became activists in the fight against female cancer only after the 1970s, Kirsten E. Gardner traces women's cancer education ...

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 ...