Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History
- ISBN-10
- 0801880645
- ISBN-13
- 9780801880643
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-02-09
- 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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