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 ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description:	ix, 220 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- History. Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- Social aspects -- History. Uterine Cervical Neoplasms -- history. Uterine Cervical Neoplasms -- prevention & control. Women -- history. Women's Health -- history. Cervix uteri -- Cancer. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8686724

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ISBN:	9780199548811 (alk. paper) 0199548811 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-213) and index.

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