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,The Making of a ‘Hopeful’ Cancer,d radical surgery. Moscucci examines the origins of this approach by exploring debates about cancer’s curability. She argues that radical surgery did not in fact work as well as anticipated, and that uterine cancer’s status as a hopeful disease essentially depended on new ways of rationalizing thera

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,Gender and Cancer Awareness Campaigns in England, c.1900–1948,ical surgeons and obstetric physicians. Rejecting pleas for a national ‘crusade’ against cervical cancer, leading British obstetricians agreed in 1907 to launch a limited initiative under the aegis of the British Medical Association (BMA), which targeted doctors and midwives rather than women themse

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Managing Cancer Risk: The Role of Prophylactic Surgery,r the prevention of penile cancer. Moscucci traces this history by linking the rise of prophylactic cancer surgery with the development of other preventive surgeries such as tonsillectomy. The chapter focuses on the management of cancer risk in women, but it also discusses the role of male circumcis

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