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Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History (Revised)

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History (Revised)

Olson, James S.

Paperback

Medical ReferenceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0801880645
ISBN13: 9780801880643
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Jan 5 2005
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

The stories of women throughout the ages who have confronted breast cancer, from ancient times to the present.

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2003 and Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for the History of Science

Breast cancer may very well be history's oldest malaise, known as well to the ancients as it is to us. The women who have endured it share a unique sisterhood. Queen Atossa and Dr. Jerri Nielsen--separated by era and geography, by culture, religion, politics, economics, and world view--could hardly have been more different. Born 2,500 years apart, they stand as opposite bookends on the shelf of human history. One was the most powerful woman in the ancient world, the daughter of an emperor, the mother of a god; the other is a twenty-first-century physician with a streak of adventure coursing through her veins. From the imperial throne in ancient Babylon, Atossa could not have imagined the modern world, and only in the driest pages of classical literature could Antarctica-based Jerri Nielsen even have begun to fathom the Near East five centuries before the birth of Christ. For all their differences, however, they shared a common fear that transcends time and space.--from Bathsheba's Breast

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