A woman's disease : the history of cervical cancer /

A woman's disease : the history of cervical cancer /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Löwy, Ilana, 1948-
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 220 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- History. Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- Social aspects -- History. Women -- history. Women's Health -- history. Uterine Cervical Neoplasms -- history. Uterine Cervical Neoplasms -- prevention & control. Cervix uteri -- Cancer. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11124830

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ISBN:	9780191634130 0191634131 9780199548811 0199548811 9786613625069 661362506X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Löwy, Ilana, 1948- Woman's disease. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199548811
Standard no.:	9786613625069

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Prologue: Three Patients
1. The Early History of Tumours of the Womb
2. Surgical Cures for a Cancerous Uterus
3. The Hope of Rays
4. The Pap Smear
5. Save the Women
6. Cervical Cancer Becomes a Sexually Transmitted Disease
7. Still a Woman's Scourge
Epilogue: Ceryical Cancer in the Twenty-First Century
Glossary
Notes
Further Reading
Index.