Helen Valier

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A History of Prostate Cancer: Cancer, Men and Medicine (2016)Hardcover - 2016, 17 August 2016

A History of Prostate Cancer: Cancer, Men and Medicine (2016)
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Part of Series
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Part of Series
Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
Print Length
241 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
17 Aug 2016
ISBN-10
140398803X
ISBN-13
9781403988034

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Helen Valier
Book Edition:
2016
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
17 August 2016
Dimensions:
22 x 15.42 x 1.93 cm
ISBN-10:
140398803X
ISBN-13:
9781403988034
Language:
English
Location:
London
Pages:
241
Weight:
426.38 gm

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