The power of social change: The women's movement and breast cancer

Breast Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 347-349

  O'Shea, John S ^a  

^a Ocean Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; HUMAN RIGHTS; MASTECTOMY; SOCIOLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; SOCIAL CHANGE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 0141678408     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4741.2003.09501.x     Document Type: Editorial

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