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Löwy, Ilana.

Preventive Strikes : Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (343 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Embodied Risk -- CHAPTER ONE: Biopsy -- CHAPTER TWO: Classifications -- CHAPTER THREE: Borderline Lesions -- CHAPTER FOUR: In Situ Cancers -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Origins of Screening -- CHAPTER SIX: The Generalization of Screening -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Heredity -- CHAPTER EIGHT: The New Surgical Radicalism -- Conclusion: Uncertainty -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

Preventive Strikes aims to improve our understanding of professional, social, and cultural responses to cancer in the twenty-first century and to inform our reflections about how values are incorporated into routine medical practices.Ilana Löwy.

ISBN: 9780801898693

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cancer in women-Surgery-Social aspects.
Precancerous conditions-Surgery-Social aspects.
Breast-Cancer-Surgery-Social aspects.
Ovaries-Cancer-Surgery-Social aspects.
Social medicine.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RC281.W65 L69 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 616.99/4071