How Cancer Crossed the Color Line |
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| Author:
| Wailoo, Keith |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-517017-7 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $58.00 |
Book Description:
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Examining one hundred years in the public campaign against cancer, this path-breaking study of scientific, medical, and epidemiological writings and of cinematic and literary representations of disease, reveals how experts and the lay public saw cancer's demographic shifts - from a stereotypical white female disease to equal opportunity killer -- as a message about women, men, race and the changing color line.
Examining one hundred years in the public campaign against cancer, this path-breaking study of scientific, medical, and epidemiological writings and of cinematic and literary representations of disease, reveals how experts and the lay public saw cancer's demographic shifts - from a stereotypical white female disease to equal opportunity killer -- as a message about women, men, race and the changing color line.