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How Cancer Crossed the Color Line

How Cancer Crossed the Color Line

Keith Wailoo

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Oxford University Press
Año de edición:
2017
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Historia de la ciencia
ISBN:
9780190655211
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In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation in cancer awareness, revealing how not only awareness, but cancer prevention, treatment, and survival have all been refracted through the lens of race.

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