Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-369) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Establishing a Tradition: William Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy -- 3. Inventing a Curable Disease: Breast Cancer Control after World War II -- 4. The Scalpel Triumphant: Radical Surgery in the 1950s -- 5. A Heretical Interlude: Biology as Fate -- 6. Reality Check: Breast Cancer Treatment and Randomized Controlled Trials -- 7. "I Alone Am in Charge of My Body": Breast Cancer Patients in Revolt -- 8. No Shrinking Violet: Rose Kushner and the Maturation of Breast Cancer Activism -- 9. Seek and Ye Shall Find: Mammography Praised and Scorned -- 10. "The World Has Passed Us By": Science, Activism, and the Fall of the Radical Mastectomy -- 11. The Past as Prologue: What Can the History of Breast Cancer Teach Us? -- 12. Risky Business: Breast Cancer and Genetics -- 13. Epilogue