This collection of essays explores efforts to control and prevent
cancer in North America and Europe. On both sides of the Atlantic,
control programs emerged in the early twentieth century, and most
were focused on early detection and treatment. Yet, those
initiatives took very different forms in different countries.
Experts disagreed on how to persuade the public to go to their
doctors, what should be the role of public education, how cancer
services should be delivered, who should provide them, which forms
of therapy were most appropriate to particular cancers, and where
to draw the line between therapy and prevention.
Focusing on the United States and Britain, this volume examines
why these differences emerged, how they shaped national programs of
control, and how control programs in the early twentieth century
presaged and set the conditions for the emergence of
prevention-oriented programs in the 1960s and 1970s.
Featuring works by leading medical historians on subjects such
as the portrayal of cancer in the movies, feminist surgeons, risk
factors for breast cancer, and the emergence of clinical trials,
Cancer in the Twentieth Century will engage historians of medicine
and public health as well as health policy analysts, medical
sociologists and anthropologists, and medical researchers and
practitioners.
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