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Early detection : women, cancer, & awareness campaigns in the twentieth-century United States
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- Creator
- Kirsten E. Gardner
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807830147, 0807856827, 0807877123, 0807830143, 9798890878373, 9780807877128, 9780807856826
- OCLC
- ocm62593471, ocn476236703
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-276) and index.
- Look cancer straight in the face: public discussions of women's cancers in the early twentieth century -- Expanding networks of women: the Amanda Sims Memorial Fund and the Women's Field Army -- From awareness to screening: early detection redefined -- Cancer survivors: public discussions of postdiagnostic concerns -- Screening technology, feminist health movement, cancer critics
Subjects
- Cancer in women -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.
- Cancer in women -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
- Neoplasms -- history -- United States.
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- Neoplasms -- prevention & control -- United States.
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- Women -- history -- United States.
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- Women's Health -- history -- United States.
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- History, 20th Century -- United States.
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