A History of Prostate Cancer - Cancer, Men and Medicine (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. Until recently, little practical help could be offered for men afflicted with the devastating diseases of the genitourinary organs. This is despite complaints of painful urination from aging men being found in ancient medical manuscripts, despite the anatomical discoveries of the European Renaissance and despite the experimental surgical researches of the eighteen and nineteenth centuries. As diseases of the prostate, including prostate cancer, came to be better understood in the early twentieth century, therapeutic nihilism continued as curative radical surgeries and radiotherapy failed. The therapeutic 'turn' came with hormonal therapies, itself a product of the explosive growth of U.S. biomedicine from the 1940s onwards. By the 1990s, prostate cancer screening had become a somewhat ubiquitous but controversial feature of the medical encounter for American men as they aged, which greatly influenced the treatment pathways and identity of the male patient: as victim, as hero, and ultimately, as consumer.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Release date:	August 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Helen Valier
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	241
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-8803-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Urology & urogenital medicine Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Biomedical engineering > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Oncology > General
LSN:	1-4039-8803-X
Barcode:	9781403988034

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