Bathsheba's Breast (ePub)
Women, Cancer, and History
(Sprache: Englisch)
An absorbing and unsettling history of breast cancer told through the stories of women who have confronted it from ancient times to the present.
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
In 1967, an Italian surgeon touring Amsterdam's Rijks museum...
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
In 1967, an Italian surgeon touring Amsterdam's Rijks museum...
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An absorbing and unsettling history of breast cancer told through the stories of women who have confronted it from ancient times to the present.
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
In 1967, an Italian surgeon touring Amsterdam's Rijks museum stopped in front of Rembrandt's Bathsheba at Her Bath and noticed an asymmetry to Bathsheba's left breast; it seemed distended, swollen near the armpit, discolored, and marked with a distinctive pitting. The physician learned that Rembrandt's model, Hendrickje Stoffels, later died after a long illness. He conjectured that the cause of her death was almost certainly breast cancer.
In Bathsheba's Breast, James S. Olson traces the history of breast cancer through women's experiences of the disease across epochs and continents. The stories range from the sixth-century Byzantine empress Theodora, who chose to die rather than lose her breast to Dr. Jerri Nielson, who was evacuated from the South Pole in 1999 after performing a biopsy on her own breast and self-administering chemotherapy.
Olson explores every facet of the disease: medicine's evolving understanding of its pathology and treatment options; its cultural significance; the political and economic logic that has dictated the terms of a war on a "woman's disease"; and the rise of patient activism.
"An invaluable aid to those breast cancer survivors with an interest in taking the long view of their illness." -Nick OwcharLos Angeles Times
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
In 1967, an Italian surgeon touring Amsterdam's Rijks museum stopped in front of Rembrandt's Bathsheba at Her Bath and noticed an asymmetry to Bathsheba's left breast; it seemed distended, swollen near the armpit, discolored, and marked with a distinctive pitting. The physician learned that Rembrandt's model, Hendrickje Stoffels, later died after a long illness. He conjectured that the cause of her death was almost certainly breast cancer.
In Bathsheba's Breast, James S. Olson traces the history of breast cancer through women's experiences of the disease across epochs and continents. The stories range from the sixth-century Byzantine empress Theodora, who chose to die rather than lose her breast to Dr. Jerri Nielson, who was evacuated from the South Pole in 1999 after performing a biopsy on her own breast and self-administering chemotherapy.
Olson explores every facet of the disease: medicine's evolving understanding of its pathology and treatment options; its cultural significance; the political and economic logic that has dictated the terms of a war on a "woman's disease"; and the rise of patient activism.
"An invaluable aid to those breast cancer survivors with an interest in taking the long view of their illness." -Nick OwcharLos Angeles Times
Autoren-Porträt von James S. Olson
James S. Olson is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the history department at Sam Houston State University. He is co-author (with Randy Roberts) of both Winning Is the Only Thing: Sports in America since 1945, available from Johns Hopkins, and John Wayne: American.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James S. Olson
- Englisch
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 0801876621
- ISBN-13: 9780801876622
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