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020    9780190655211 
050 04 RC276 |b.W35 2011 
100 1  Wailoo, Keith 
245 10 How cancer crossed the color line /|cKeith Wailoo. 
260    Oxford ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press, |c2011. 
300    251p :|bill;|c23cm. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction: health awareness and the color line -- White
       plague -- Primitive's progress -- The feminine mystique of
       self-examination -- How the other half dies -- Between 
       progress and protest -- The new politics of old 
       differences -- Conclusion: the color of cancer. 
520    "Examining a century of twists and turns in anti-cancer 
       campaigns, this path-breaking study shows how American 
       cancer awareness, prevention, treatment, and survival have
       been refracted through the lens of race. As cancer went 
       from being a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic 
       disease" to a fearsome threat in communities of color, 
       experts and the lay public interpreted these trends as 
       lessons about women, men, and the color line. Drawing on 
       film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence,
       and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks cancer's 
       transformation--how theories of risk evolved with changes 
       in women's roles and African-American and new immigrant 
       migration trends, with the growth of federal cancer 
       surveillance, economic depression and world war, and with 
       diagnostic advances, racial protest, and contemporary 
       health activism. A pioneering study of health 
       communication in America, the book skillfully documents 
       how race and gender became central motifs in the birth of 
       cancer awareness, how patterns and perceptions changed, 
       and how the "war on cancer" continues to be waged along 
       the color line"--Provided by publisher 
650  0 Cancer|zUnited States 
650  0 Cancer in women|zUnited States 
650  0 Minorities |xHealth and hygiene |zUnited States 
650  4 Medicine 
650  4 Health