How Cancer Crossed the Color Line |
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Author:
| Wailoo, Keith |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-975314-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $20.99 |
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.