Early Detection

Women, Cancer, & Awareness Campaigns in the Twentieth-century United States

• Author(s): Kirsten Elizabeth Gardner,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 283
• ISBN_10: 0807830143
  ISBN_13: 9780807830147
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Women's Studies , Health & Fitness / Diseases / Cancer , Medical / History ,

Description:... Dispelling the common notion that American female cancer activism is a post-1970s phenomenon, Kirsten E. Gardner traces women's cancer education campaigns back to the early twentieth century. Focusing on breast cancer, but using research on cervical, ovar