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By Robert A. Aronowitz. 366 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. $30. ISBN 978-0-521-82249-7.

There is a complex emotional, social, and cultural overlay to the experience and treatment of breast disease that makes breast cancer unique. Although physician and historian Robert Aronowitz drew from the writings of key patients, physicians, and cancer researchers over the past two centuries in composing this history, his principal aim is a critique of society in general and medicine in particular. His book is therefore not a natural history of breast disease but an Unnatural History, as the title proclaims. It is structured predominantly around three main topics: the radical mastectomy of the Halsted era at the turn of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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