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Visions of Utopia,cal cancer. Lack of enthusiasm for screening in Britain can also explain why the ‘wet film’ technique, a cytological method of intra-operative diagnosis introduced by pathologist Leonard Dudgeon in the late 1920s, failed to develop into a screening method, despite showing great promise as a means of detecting early cervical and lung cancer.

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Introduction,ntieth-century medicine and to contemporary medical and public health policy: the meanings of prevention; oncology and the politics of hope; cultural attitudes to the ‘body at risk’; and the changing ideology of public health.

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,Gender and Cancer Awareness Campaigns in England, c.1900–1948,h after 1923. Moscucci explores the reasons why women’s cancers remained high on the interwar public health agenda, despite evidence showing that stomach cancer was the largest cause of cancer mortality when both sexes were taken together.

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Conclusion,is conspicuously absent from the literature addressed specifically at women or men. Moscucci concludes that a more critical approach is needed. A gender perspective may serve to correct biases and imbalances in cancer discourse, to the benefit of both women and men.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5781-0ntive surgeries such as tonsillectomy. The chapter focuses on the management of cancer risk in women, but it also discusses the role of male circumcision as cancer prevention to raise broader questions about medical attitudes to the body at risk, and about the management of uncertainty in clinical practice.

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The Yellow Principle: Develop a Will to Win,is conspicuously absent from the literature addressed specifically at women or men. Moscucci concludes that a more critical approach is needed. A gender perspective may serve to correct biases and imbalances in cancer discourse, to the benefit of both women and men.