How Cancer Crossed the Color Line

ISBN: 9780190655211 出版年：2010 页码：262 Wailoo, Keith Oxford University Press

Examining one hundred years in the public campaign against cancer, this path-breaking study of scientific, medical, and epidemiological writings and of cinematic and literary representations of disease, reveals how experts and the lay public saw cancer's demographic shifts - from a stereotypical white female disease to equal opportunity killer -- as a message about women, men, race and the changing color line.