History of Prostate Cancer

Cancer, Men and Medicine

AvHelen Valier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History

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Beskrivning

This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. As diseases of the prostate, including prostate cancer, came to be better understood in the early twentieth century, therapeutic nihilism continued as curative radical surgeries and radiotherapy failed.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-17
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:438 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Antal sidor:241
Upplaga:2016
Förlag:Palgrave USA
ISBN:9781403988034

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Helen Valier is Director of the Medicine & Society Program at The Honors College, University of Houston, USA. Her teaching and research interests fall broadly within western and colonial/postcolonial medicine and technology from late nineteenth to late twentieth century.

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"The text is well written, scholarly and richly referenced, making it a useful starting point for learning about the history of prostate cancer in all its aspects. ... Valier delivers a worthwhile lesson about the unintended consequences of medical innovation that is relevant to the trainee doctors, healthcare professionals, biomedical researchers, industry executives and policy makers who will determine how new technologies affect the wellbeing of the public in the future." (Edward J. Wawrzynczak, BSHM British Society for the History of Medicine, bshm.org.uk, October, 2016)

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Cancer and the making of modern medicine. - 2. The problematic prehistory of prostate cancer. - 3. Surgery and Specialization. - 4. Sex, Hormones, and Quantification. - 5. Cancer and clinical trials. - 6. Screening, Patients, and the Politics of Prevention. - 7. Radiotherapy and Evidence in an Age of High Technology. - 8. Conclusions: Medicine, masculinity, and the problems of the prostate