Item Details
Fighting the war on breast cancer in the 20th century [videorecording] : from the radical mastectomy to genetic testing
produced by University Relations, Television News Office, University of Virginia.
- Format
- Online; VHS; Video
- Summary
- Dr. Lerner gave a history of the treatment of breast cancer in the United States during the 20th century. He showed how this treatment was influenced by social and cultural factors. Through mid-century male doctors primarily took the approach of more surgery is better, and performed numerous radical mastectomies. In the 1970s with the feminist movement, women began demanding a choice of treatment options, and breast cancer came to be seen as a public health problem.
- Performer(s)
- Lecturer: Barron H. Lerner.
- Release Date
- 2001
- Run Time
- 31 min.
- Notes
- Medical Center hour lecture given in Jordan Hall Auditorium, April 11, 2001. The lecture was sponsored by Humanities in Medicine, History of the health sciences lecture series, and the Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia. This version was edited to fit the program format of the television presentation first aired September 20, 2001.
- Series
- UVA newsmakers
- Medical center hour
- Series statement
- UVA newsmakers
- Medical center hour ; 4/11/01.
- Credits
- Editors: Rob Smith, Matt Upcapher, Kent C. Williamson.
- Published
- [Charlottesville, Va.] :The Office,c2001.
- Related resources
- video
- transcript
- Description
- 1 videocassette (31 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [NTSC]
- Technical details
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