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By James S. Olson. 302 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. $24.95. ISBN 0-8018-6936-6.

James S. Olson has taken on the task of recounting the entire history of breast cancer — from Queen Atossa, who lived in Babylon in 490 b.c., to Dr. Jerri Nielsen, who was trapped in Antarctica in 1999 — and has done it in a concise, attractive, enjoyable book. He tells the stories of affected women throughout the ages, including Queen Anne, Mary Washington (the pro-British mother of George), Nabby Adams, Hitler's mother, Betty Ford, Happy Rockefeller, Nancy Reagan, Shirley Temple Black, Rachel Carson, Linda McCartney, and many others.

For the first 2000 years, the humoral theory of Galen held . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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