Early detection women, cancer, & awareness campaigns in the twentieth-century United States /

Gardner, Kirsten E.

Early detection women, cancer, & awareness campaigns in the twentieth-century United States / [electronic resource] : Kirsten E. Gardner. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006. - xii, 283 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index.

Look cancer straight in the face: public discussions of women's cancers in the early twentieth century -- Expanding networks of women: the Amanda Sims Memorial Fund and the Women's Field Army -- From awareness to screening: early detection redefined -- Cancer survivors: public discussions of postdiagnostic concerns -- Screening technology, feminist health movement, cancer critics.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Cancer in women--Social aspects--History--20th century.
Cancer in women--Political aspects--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

RC281.W65 / G37 2006

362.196/9940082