In this sense, this issue of Dynamis proposes to add to this new growing literature of cancer studies by adding depth and detail to the study of one the most emblematic of cancers, gynaecological cancers, as well as indicating diversity in similarly configured health systems. This dossier’s case studies span the twentieth and twentieth-first century and concentrate on a series of aspects that emerged as a consequence of the policies implemented at different times to control the disease. Articles explore and assess the historical and social intersections of medicine, public health interventions, specialists, and health systems. In analysing the complex organisation of cancer services, the emergence of new actors and their dispute fo...
Breast cancer is a health issue of central importance as the most common cancer affecting Canadian w...
The description and interpretation of Latinas’ experience with chemotherapyinduced premature menopau...
Breast and cervical cancer are major threats to the health of women globally, particularly in low-in...
Today cancer is seen as a disease that affects both sexes roughly equally. This is, however, a relat...
Historical work on cancer has suggested that a range of political, social, and medical concerns stim...
This article analyses the organisation of cancer control in Argentina, with a special focus on the i...
Starting in the 1920s, the first initiatives to organize the control of cancer in Argentina soon rev...
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory...
The dominance of men in a societies across the world seems to produce a relative lack of interest in...
Breast cancer claims thousands of lives all over the world every year. A historical perspective on t...
This thesis is a socio-historical study of cervical cancer from the late nineteenth century to the l...
This article explores the early history of cancer education in Britain, focusing on the period betwe...
Cytological screening for cervical cancer (the Pap smear), the first attempt at mass screening for a...
Women interact with cancer in complex ways, as healthy individuals participating in cancer preventio...
Women's advocates’ strategies to influence international health agencies offer a new way to think ab...
Breast cancer is a health issue of central importance as the most common cancer affecting Canadian w...
The description and interpretation of Latinas’ experience with chemotherapyinduced premature menopau...
Breast and cervical cancer are major threats to the health of women globally, particularly in low-in...
Today cancer is seen as a disease that affects both sexes roughly equally. This is, however, a relat...
Historical work on cancer has suggested that a range of political, social, and medical concerns stim...
This article analyses the organisation of cancer control in Argentina, with a special focus on the i...
Starting in the 1920s, the first initiatives to organize the control of cancer in Argentina soon rev...
The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory...
The dominance of men in a societies across the world seems to produce a relative lack of interest in...
Breast cancer claims thousands of lives all over the world every year. A historical perspective on t...
This thesis is a socio-historical study of cervical cancer from the late nineteenth century to the l...
This article explores the early history of cancer education in Britain, focusing on the period betwe...
Cytological screening for cervical cancer (the Pap smear), the first attempt at mass screening for a...
Women interact with cancer in complex ways, as healthy individuals participating in cancer preventio...
Women's advocates’ strategies to influence international health agencies offer a new way to think ab...
Breast cancer is a health issue of central importance as the most common cancer affecting Canadian w...
The description and interpretation of Latinas’ experience with chemotherapyinduced premature menopau...
Breast and cervical cancer are major threats to the health of women globally, particularly in low-in...