Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History
- ISBN-10
- 0801869366
- ISBN-13
- 9780801869365
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 302
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-07-27
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- James S. Olson
Description
Documents the celebrated 1967 article by an Italian surgeon who concluded that Rembrandt's model and mistress, Hendrickje Stoffels, died of breast cancer, and continues with a narrative history of the disease, its treatments, and several of its noteworthy patients.
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- 2004-04-29
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