Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History

Abstract

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. $24.95.0-8018-6936-6 James S. Olson has taken on the task of recounting the entire history of breast cancer -- from Queen Atossa, who lived in Babylon in 490 b.c., to Dr. Jerri Nielsen, who was trapped in Antarctica in 1999 -- and has done it in a concise, attractive, enjoyable book. First-person accounts by women who underwent this procedure are chilling.