A history of prostate cancer : cancer, men and medicine / Helen Valier.
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...
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Table of Contents:
- Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Prostate, Cancer, and the Making of Modern Medicine; Notes; Chapter 2: The Problematic Prehistory of Prostate Cancer; Physicians, Cancer, and the Prostate from the Ancient World to the Renaissance; The Prostate in the Age of Morbid Anatomy; Of Inflammation and Scirrhus: Cancer Before the Mid-Nineteenth Century; Notes; Chapter 3: Surgery and Specialization; Hunter's Comparative Anatomy and Observations on Castration; Urology and Prostate Cancer in the Mid-to-Late Nineteenth Century.
- Radical Surgery at Johns Hopkins: Hugh Young and the Rise of Academic Urology Notes; Chapter 4: Sex, Hormones, and Quantification; Sex, Glands, and Masculinity; Prostate Health and Testicular Extract in the Medical Marketplace; Charles Huggins and the Treatment of Prostate Cancer with Hormones; Notes; Chapter 5: Cancer and Clinical Trials; The Veterans Administration and Cooperative Clinical Trials; The Emergence of the 'Gleason Score' as a Prognostic Indicator; The 1971 National Cancer Act and Prostate Cancer; The Significance and Aftermath of the VACURG Trials: Beyond the Gleason Score.
- NotesChapter 6: Screening, Patients, and the Politics of Prevention; Roswell, Hybridtech, Stanford, and the FDA: Bringing the PSA Test to Market; The Detection of Prostate Cancer from the 1900s to the 1990s; The Rise of Biopsy and the Overdiagnosis Critique; The US Preventative Services Task Force and the Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine; Gender and Politics of Cancer Research; Causes and Effects in the Prostate Cancer Epidemic and Its Aftermath; Notes; Chapter 7: Radiotherapy and Evidence in an Age of High Technology.
- The Rise and Fall of Neutron Therapy and the Rise (and Rise) of Medical PhysicsCharged Particles and IMRT: New Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer; Proton Therapy: A Singularly Expensive, 'Unproven' High Technology?; Proton Therapy and the Controversy Over Clinical Equipoise and Clinical Trials; The Influence of Prostate Cancer on the Growth of Proton Therapy; Looking to the Future: The Clinical Investigation and Practice of Proton Therapy; Notes; Chapter 8: Conclusions: Medicine, Masculinity, and the Problems of the Prostate.
- Men, Marginalization, Masculinity, and Metaphor in the Late Twentieth CenturyA 'Neglected' Disease?; Questions and Concerns for the Future; Notes; Bibliography; Index.