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Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History
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The stories of women throughout the ages who have confronted breast cancer, from ancient times to the present.
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2003 and Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for the History of Science
"Breast cancer may very well be history's oldest malaise, known as well to the ancients as it is to us. The women who have endured it share a unique sisterhood. Queen Atossa and Dr. Jerri Nielsen—separated by era and geograp...