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Auteur(s) : Wailoo, Keith
Titre(s) : How cancer crossed the color line [Texte imprimé] / Keith Wailoo
Publication : New York : Oxford university press, 2011
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (251 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Introduction: Health awareness and the color line ; White plague ; Primitive's progress
; The feminine mystique of self-examination ; How the other half dies ; Between
progress and protest ; The new politics of old differences ; Conclusion: The color
of cancer.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 185-235
"Examining a century of twists and turns in anti-cancer campaigns, this path-breaking
study shows how American cancer awareness, prevention, treatment, and survival have
been refracted through the lens of race. As cancer went from being a white woman's
nemesis to a "democratic disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color, experts
and the lay public interpreted these trends as lessons about women, men, and the color
line. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on
patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks cancer's transformation--how theories of risk
evolved with changes in women's roles and African-American and new immigrant migration
trends, with the growth of federal cancer surveillance, economic depression and world
war, and with diagnostic advances, racial protest, and contemporary health activism.
A pioneering study of health communication in America, the book skillfully documents
how race and gender became central motifs in the birth of cancer awareness, how patterns
and perceptions changed, and how the "war on cancer" continues to be waged along the
color line."--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Cancer -- États-Unis
Minorités -- Santé et hygiène -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
362.196 994 (23e éd.) = Cancer (problèmes et services sociaux)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780195170177. - ISBN 0195170172 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43600832r
Notice n° :
FRBNF43600832
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