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A history of prostate cancercancer, men and medicine /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A history of prostate cancerby Helen Valier.
Reminder of title:	cancer, men and medicine /
Author:	Valier, Helen.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016.
Description:	x, 241 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	ProstateCancer
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56595-2
ISBN:	9781137565952$q(electronic bk.)

A history of prostate cancercancer, men and medicine /
Valier, Helen.

A history of prostate cancercancer, men and medicine /[electronic resource] :by Helen Valier. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - x, 241 p. :digital ;22 cm. - Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history. - Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history..

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. Helen Valier is Director of the Medicine & Society Program at The Honors College, University of Houston, USA. Her teaching and research interests fall broadly within western and colonial/postcolonial medicine and technology from late nineteenth to late twentieth century.

ISBN: 9781137565952$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-56595-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

758512
Prostate
--Cancer

LC Class. No.: RC280.P7 / V35 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 616.99463

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