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Managing Uncertainty: Women and Cancer in Contemporary History Printer-friendly versionPDF version

Book:
Women's Bodies and Medical Science: An Inquiry into Cervical Cancer
Linda Bryder
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, ISBN: 9780230236035; 256pp.; Price: £60.00
Book:
Preventive Strikes: Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery
Ilana Löwy
Baltimore, MD, John Hopkins University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780801893643; 344pp.; Price: £27.00
Book:
A Woman's Disease: The History of Cervical Cancer
Ilana Löwy
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780199548811; 240pp.; Price: £14.99
Reviewer:
Dr Yolanda Eraso
Oxford Brookes University
Citation:
Dr Yolanda Eraso, review of Managing Uncertainty: Women and Cancer in Contemporary History , (review no. 1239)
https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1239
Date accessed: 19 March, 2024

Comments

Megan CookFri, 20/04/2012 - 15:40
Linda Bryder's account has been contested by other New Zealand historians. See: The Cartwright Papers: Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry 1987-88, Joanna Manning (ed.), Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 2009.
Bridget William...Wed, 09/05/2012 - 01:43
Further to Megan Cook's comment, 'The Cartwright Papers' can be previewed on Google Books using the following link: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lHfafxmBkVUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
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