TY  - BOOK
AU  - Löwy,Ilana
AU  - Löwy,Ilana
TI  - Preventive Strikes: Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery
SN  - 9780801898693
AV  - RC281.W65 L69 2010 
U1  - 616.99/4071 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Cancer in women-Surgery-Social aspects
KW  - Precancerous conditions-Surgery-Social aspects
KW  - Breast-Cancer-Surgery-Social aspects
KW  - Ovaries-Cancer-Surgery-Social aspects
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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