The Big Squeeze : A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram.

By:

Reynolds, Handel E

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (133 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780801466007

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Big SqueezeDDC classification:

618.1/90754

LOC classification:

RG493.5.R33

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Contents:

The Big Squeeze -- Contents -- Introduction: The Mammography Story -- 1. Timing Is Everything -- 2. First Exposure -- 3. The Aftermath -- 4. A Tale of Two Epidemics -- 5. Age Is Nothing But a Number -- 6. Pulling the Plug on Granny -- 7. The House That Mammography Built -- 8. Overdiagnosis: Mammography's Burden -- Notes -- Index.

Summary: This concise book chronicles the often turbulent history of screening mammography since its introduction in the early 1970s.

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This concise book chronicles the often turbulent history of screening mammography since its introduction in the early 1970s.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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