| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 220 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Three Patients; 1 The Early History of Tumours of the Womb; 2 Surgical Cures for a Cancerous Uterus; 3 The Hope of Rays; 4 The Pap Smear; 5 Save the Women; 6 Cervical Cancer Becomes a Sexually Transmitted Disease; 7 Still a Woman's Scourge; Epilogue: Cervical Cancer in the Twenty-First Century; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; Notes; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W. |
| Summary |
Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. For a long time, this disease was identified with the most dreaded aspects of malignancies: prolonged invalidity and chronic pain, but also physical degradation, shame and social isolation. Cervical cancer displayed in parallel the dangers of being a woman. In the 20th century, innovations initially developed to control cervical cancer - radiotherapy and radium therapy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- History.
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Cervix uteri -- Cancer. |
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History. |
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Cervix uteri -- Cancer -- Social aspects -- History.
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Social aspects. |
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Uterine Cervical Neoplasms -- history. |
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Uterine Cervical Neoplasms -- prevention & control. |
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Women's Health -- history. |
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Women -- history. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Löwy, Ilana, 1948- Woman's disease. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199548811 (OCoLC)751725967 |
| ISBN |
9780191634130 (electronic book) |
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0191634131 (electronic book) |
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9780199548811 |
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0199548811 |
| Standard No. |
9786613625069 |
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