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Previous Volume 344:1337-1338 April 26, 2001 Number 17

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Edited by Anne S. Kasper and Susan J. Ferguson. 388 pp. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. $27.95. ISBN 0-312-21710-2.

Is breast cancer a social problem or a medical disease? Of course it is both, but by posing such a dichotomy, Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic raises disturbing questions and obscures potential answers. At times, this book degenerates into prejudice against men and the biomedical establishment. At other times, it provides a trenchant analysis of the social, economic, and political dimensions of breast cancer. Most edited collections of essays suffer by definition from a lack of consistency, of a single voice. This book is part shrill and part skill, part polemic and part indictment. It addresses social and economic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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