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Preventive Strikes
Ilana Lowy
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Description for Preventive Strikes
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 Lowy Num Pages: 344 pages, 11, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MJCL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
Modern scientific tools can identify a genetic predisposition to cancer before any disease is detectable. Some women will never develop breast or ovarian cancer, but they nevertheless must decide, as a result of genetic testing, whether to have their breasts and ovaries removed to avoid the possibility of disease. The striking contrast between the sophistication of diagnosis and the crudeness of preventive surgery forms the basis of historian Ilana Lowy's important study. Lowy traces the history of prophylactic amputations through a century of preventive treatment and back to a long tradition of surgical management of gynecological problems. In the ... Read more
Modern scientific tools can identify a genetic predisposition to cancer before any disease is detectable. Some women will never develop breast or ovarian cancer, but they nevertheless must decide, as a result of genetic testing, whether to have their breasts and ovaries removed to avoid the possibility of disease. The striking contrast between the sophistication of diagnosis and the crudeness of preventive surgery forms the basis of historian Ilana Lowy's important study. Lowy traces the history of prophylactic amputations through a century of preventive treatment and back to a long tradition of surgical management of gynecological problems. In the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801893643
SKU
V9780801893643
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About Ilana Lowy
Ilana Lowy is a senior researcher at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Science.
Reviews for Preventive Strikes
Splendid... This is a major study for doctors and historians alike. Medical History 2010 Elegantly captures the history of the medicine and the politics, showing how they are interlinked. Lancet 2010 A riveting and tragic story.
Iona Heath International Journal of Epidemiology 2010 A valuable contribution to the historical scholarship on risk, surgery and cancer, and one can only ... Read more
Iona Heath International Journal of Epidemiology 2010 A valuable contribution to the historical scholarship on risk, surgery and cancer, and one can only ... Read more