Radical : : the Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
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Seek and ye shall find -- CSI: breasts -- Diagnosis -- Pink vibes -- Lady parts -- Not your mother's chemotherapy -- Pick your poison -- Targets -- From scalpels to sentinels -- Whole again -- So meta -- Prognosis.
Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: 325 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316470322
0316470325
SUBJECTS
Pickert, Kate.
Breast -- Treatment -- Popular works.
Breast -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Breast Neoplasms -- Therapy.
Breast Neoplasms -- History.