The Big Squeeze : : A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram / / Handel E. Reynolds.
In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer until the age of fifty, reversing guidelines they had issued just seven years before when they recommended forty as the optimal...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Mammography Story
- 1. Timing Is Everything
- 2. First Exposure
- 3. The Aftermath
- 4. A Tale of Two Epidemics
- 5. Age Is Nothing But a Number
- 6. Pulling the Plug on Granny
- 7. The House That Mammography Built
- 8. Overdiagnosis: Mammography’s Burden
- Notes
- Index