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Breast Cancer
These resources are related to two Center for Ethics programs: the gallry show entitled "Knowing Stephanie: Images of Breast Cancer" that is running from 8 September - 31 October 2004 at the Martin Art Gallery and the Lee National Denim Day for Breast Cancer Awareness (8 October).
For more information regarding the gallery show, the opening reception, and Lee National Denim Day for Breast Cancer Awareness, visit the Center for Ethics website.
Material by Charlee Brodsky, on Library Reserve for The Center for Ethics
Brodsky, Charlee. Knowing Stephanie. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
Call # 362.19699449 bB995xb [On Reserve]
Reference Works
Berkow, Robert, ed. Merck manual of medical information. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck Research Laboratories, 1997.
Ref. 612.024 M553mCarlson, Karen J., Stephanie A. Eisenstat, and Terra Ziporyn. The Harvard guide to women's health. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Ref. 616.0082 C284hLonge, Jacqueline L., ed. Gale encyclopedia of medicine, 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2002.
Ref. 616.003 G151e v.1-5Macpherson, Gordon. Black's medical dictionary, 40th ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004.
2004 Ed. On Order; Previous edition: Ref. 610.3 M172bShannon, Joyce Brennfleck, ed. Worldwide health sourcebook : basic information about global health issues, including malnutrition, reproductive health, disease dispersion and prevention. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2001.
Ref. 362.1 W927h
Finding Articles: Databases and Indexes
Topical Databases:
Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
Excellent source for finding articles on women and their response to breast cancer.Health Source
Full-text database that is focused on medical, health, and public health information. HealthSource contains both scholarly and popular articles.MLA
This literature (humanities) database is useful for finding criticism and articles about breast cancer in literature.PubMed (Medline)
An excellent source for finding articles from the medical field.Interdisciplinary Databases:
Academic Search Premier
Indexes, Abstracts, Citations and Full text publications covering most disciplines.Lexis-Nexis Academic
General news magazines, periodicals, international news, etc…OmniFile (WilsonWeb)
Multidisciplinary database providing the complete content--indexing, abstracts, and full text--from six of Wilson's full-text databases.
Subject Headings
Using these Library of Congress Subject Headings in your searches will help you obtain more relevant information from databases and the library catalog:
Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Breast Cancer Patients
Breast Cancer Research
Breast Cancer Treatment
Breast Cancer United States
Breast Cancer United States Prevention
Breast Examination
Breast Radiography
Cancer
Cancer Treatment
Mastectomy
Selected Works from the Main Collection and Government Documents
Main Collection
Clorfene-Casten, Liane. Breast cancer : poisons, profits, and prevention. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1996.
Main Collection 362.19699449 C644bDeGregorio, Michael W. and Valerie J. Wiebe. Tamoxifen and breast cancer, revised and updated ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Main Collection 616.99449 D321tGofman, John W. Preventing breast cancer : the story of a major, proven, preventable cause of this disease, 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: C.N.R. Book Division, Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc., 1996.
Main Collection 616.99449 G612pLerner, Barron H. The breast cancer wars : hope, fear, and the pursuit of a cure in twentieth-century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Main Collection 616.99449 L616bLorde, Audre. A burst of light: essays. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988.
Main Collection 818.52 L867bGovernment Documents
National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference. Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer. The National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference : adjuvant therapy for breast cancer : Bethesda, Maryland, November 1-3, 2000. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, 2001.
Govt Docs HE 20.3162/3:30United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. The role of early detection and complementary and alternative medicine in women's cancers : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, June 10, 1999. Washington, DC: GPO, 2000.
Govt Docs Microforms Y 4.G 74/7:D 48/2United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health Care. Medical assistance for certain women found to have breast or cervical cancer : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health Care of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, on S. 662, July 27, 1999. Washington, DC: GPO, 1999.
Govt Docs Microforms Y 4.F 49:S.HRG.106-215United States. Public Health Service. Office on Women's Health. Image-guided diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer : a review of the current state of the art and future directions.Washington, DC: The Dept., 1998.
Govt Docs HE 20.2:B 74/4/998
Selected Websites
Governmental and International Organizations
National Cancer Institute
http://www.cancer.gov/Office on Women's Health, Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.4woman.gov/owh/index.htmNational Action Plan on Breast Cancer (Dept. of Health and Human Services)
http://www.4woman.gov/napbc/Center for Disease Control (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/CDC Breast Cancer Page
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/Organizations and Centers
American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.orgBreastCancer.org
http://www.breastcancer.org/National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
http://www.nbcam.org/National Breast Cancer Coalition
http://www.natlbcc.org/National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
http://www.canceradvocacy.org/Lee National Denim Day for Breast Cancer Awareness
http://www.denimday.com/The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
http://www.komen.org/
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Last modified on 3 September 2004
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