Radical : the science, culture, and history of breast cancer in America
(2019)
By:
Pickert, Kate
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
616.99449/PICKERT,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2019
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
325 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316470322, 0316470325
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Seek and ye shall find -- CSI: breasts -- Diagnosis -- Pink vibes -- Lady parts -- Not your mother's chemotherapy -- Pick your poison -- Targets -- From scalpels to sentinels -- Whole again -- So meta -- Prognosis
Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age