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Cancer in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780801888670
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by David Cantor
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Local release date: 14/07/2008
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 368 pages Weight: 544g
Categories: History of medicine [MBX]

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This collection of essays explores efforts to control and prevent cancer in North America and Europe. On both sides of the Atlantic, control programs emerged in the early twentieth century, and most were focused on early detection and treatment. Yet, these initiatives took very different forms indifferent countries. Experts disagreed on how to persuade the public to go to their doctors, what should be the role of public education, how cancer services should be delivered, who should provide them, which forms of therapy were most appropriate to particular cancers, and where to drawthe line between therapy and prevention.Focusing on the United States and Britain, this volume examines why these differences emerged, how they shaped national programs of control, and how control programs in the early twentieth century presaged and set the conditions for the emergence of prevention-oriented programsin the 1960s and 1970s.Featuring works by leading medical historians on subjects such as the portrayal of cancer in the movies, feminist surgeons,risk factors for breast cancer, and the emergence of clinical trials, Cancer in the Twentieth Century will engage historians of medicine and public health as well as health policy analysts, medical sociologists and anthropologists, and medical researchers and practitioners.

""David Cantor has edited a fine collection of papers... This paperback book would make a stimulating addition to any reading list for advanced undergraduate courses examining the history of chronic disease or the economics of healthcare systems.""

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