A history of prostate cancer : cancer, men and medicine /: cancer, men and medicine. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helen Valier.
• Authors: Valier, Helen K
• Contents: Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Prostate, Cancer, and the Making of Modern Medicine; Notes; Chapter 2: The Problematic Prehistory of Prostate Cancer; Physicians, Cancer, and the Prostate from the Ancient World to the Renaissance; The Prostate in the Age of Morbid Anatomy; Of Inflammation and Scirrhus: Cancer Before the Mid-Nineteenth Century; Notes; Chapter 3: Surgery and Specialization; Hunter's Comparative Anatomy and Observations on Castration; Urology and Prostate Cancer in the Mid-to-Late Nineteenth Century Radical Surgery at Johns Hopkins: Hugh Young and the Rise of Academic Urology Notes; Chapter 4: Sex, Hormones, and Quantification; Sex, Glands, and Masculinity; Prostate Health and Testicular Extract in the Medical Marketplace; Charles Huggins and the Treatment of Prostate Cancer with Hormones; Notes; Chapter 5: Cancer and Clinical Trials; The Veterans Administration and Cooperative Clinical Trials; The Emergence of the 'Gleason Score' as a Prognostic Indicator; The 1971 National Cancer Act and Prostate Cancer; The Significance and Aftermath of the VACURG Trials: Beyond the Gleason Score NotesChapter 6: Screening, Patients, and the Politics of Prevention; Roswell, Hybridtech, Stanford, and the FDA: Bringing the PSA Test to Market; The Detection of Prostate Cancer from the 1900s to the 1990s; The Rise of Biopsy and the Overdiagnosis Critique; The US Preventative Services Task Force and the Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine; Gender and Politics of Cancer Research; Causes and Effects in the Prostate Cancer Epidemic and Its Aftermath; Notes; Chapter 7: Radiotherapy and Evidence in an Age of High Technology The Rise and Fall of Neutron Therapy and the Rise (and Rise) of Medical PhysicsCharged Particles and IMRT: New Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer; Proton Therapy: A Singularly Expensive, 'Unproven' High Technology?; Proton Therapy and the Controversy Over Clinical Equipoise and Clinical Trials; The Influence of Prostate Cancer on the Growth of Proton Therapy; Looking to the Future: The Clinical Investigation and Practice of Proton Therapy; Notes; Chapter 8: Conclusions: Medicine, Masculinity, and the Problems of the Prostate Men, Marginalization, Masculinity, and Metaphor in the Late Twentieth CenturyA 'Neglected' Disease?; Questions and Concerns for the Future; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.99463; History; Prostate -- Cancer; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General; MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL / Diseases; MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL / Internal Medicine; Prostate -- Cancer; Prostatic Neoplasms -- history; Prostatic Neoplasms -- therapy; Prostatic Neoplasms -- psychology; Men's Health -- history; Clinical Trials as Topic; Masculinity; Science -- History; History -- United States -- General; History -- Modern -- General; History -- Social History; Medical -- History; History of science; History of the Americas; History: earliest times to present day; Social & cultural history; History of medicine; History, Modern; Social history; Medicine; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; British & Irish history; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137565952; 1137565950
• Related ISBNs: 9781403988034; 140398803X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 22, 2016)
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