The big squeeze : a social and political history of the controversial mammogram / Handel Reynolds.
By: Reynolds, Handel.
Material type: TextSeries: Culture and politics of health care work: Publisher: Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 121 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780801450938 (cloth : alk. paper); 0801450934 (cloth : alk. paper).Other title: Social and political history of the controversial mammogram.Subject(s): Breast -- Radiography | Breast neoplasms -- Diagnosis -- United States | Breast -- Radiography -- United States -- History | Breast -- Cancer -- Diagnosis -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 618.1/90754Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 618.190754 R334 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003133261 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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