The big squeeze : a social and political history of the controversial mammogram / Handel Reynolds.

  • Reynolds, Handel, 1963-
Date:
2012
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2012.

Physical description

121 pages ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the mammography story -- Timing is everything -- First exposure -- The aftermath -- A tale of two epidemics -- Age is nothing but a number -- Pulling the plug on granny -- The house that mammography built -- Overdiagnosis : mammography's burden.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    DYB.6.AA9-10
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ISBN

  • 9780801450938
  • 0801450934