A Darker Ribbon

A Darker Ribbon
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0807065137
ISBN-13 : 9780807065136
Rating : 4/5 (136 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Darker Ribbon by : Ellen Leopold

Download or read book A Darker Ribbon written by Ellen Leopold and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first cultural history of breast cancer, this book examines the social attitudes and medical treatments that together defined the modern relationship between women with the disease and their doctors. At the heart of the book are two unpublished correspondences-one between Barbara Mueller, a woman diagnosed with breast cancer eighty years ago, and her surgeon, William Steward Halsted, father of the radical mastectomy, and the other between Rachel Carson, who was writing Silent Spring as she was battling breast cancer, and her personal physician George Crile, Jr.


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