{"product_id":"9781403988034","title":"Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History: Cancer, Men and Medicine","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMedicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History: Cancer, Men and Medicine\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eValier, Helen\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 men being found in ancient medical  manuscripts, despite the anatomical discoveries of the European Renaissance  and despite the experimental surgical researches of the eighteen and nineteenth  centuries. As diseases of the prostate, including prostate cancer, came to be  better understood in the early twentieth century, therapeutic nihilism  continued as curative radical surgeries and radiotherapy failed. The  therapeutic ‘turn’ came with hormonal therapies, itself a product of the  explosive growth of U.S. biomedicine from the 1940s onwards. By the 1990s,  prostate cancer screening had become a somewhat ubiquitous but controversial  feature of the medical encounter for American menas they aged, which greatly  influenced the treatment pathways and identity of the male patient: as victim,  as hero, and ultimately, as consumer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2016-08-17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781403988034\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-56595-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 241\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44753442341004,"sku":"9781403988034","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781403988034.jpg?v=1775964753","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781403988034","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}