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EBOOK How Cancer Crossed the Color Line
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199752911
EAN: FBAB1300EB
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Stron: 264
Data wydania: 2011
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In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white        woman's nemesis to a "e;democratic disease"e; 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.Spanning more than a century, the        book offers a sweeping account of the forces that simultaneously defined cancer as        an intensely individualized and personal experience linked to whites, often        categorizing people across the color line as racial types lacking similar personal        dimensions. Wailoo describes how theories of risk evolved with changes in women's        roles, with African-American and new immigrant migration trends, with the growth of        federal cancer surveillance, and with diagnostic advances, racial protest, and        contemporary health activism. The book examines such powerful and transformative        social developments as the mass black migration from rural south to urban north in        the 1920s and 1930s, the World War II experience at home and on the war front, and        the quest for civil rights and equality in health in the 1950s and '60s. It also        explores recent controversies that illuminate the diversity of cancer challenges in        America, such as the high cancer rates among privileged women in Marin County,        California, the heavy toll of prostate cancer among black men, and the questions        about why Vietnamese-American women's cervical cancer rates are so high.A pioneering        study, How Cancer Crossed the Color Line gracefully documents how race and gender        became central motifs in the birth of cancer awareness, how patterns and perceptions        changed over time, and how the "e;war on cancer"e; continues to be waged along the color        line.

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