| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society. By Robert A. Aronowitz. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii, 366 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-521-82249-7.)
Unnatural History traces how breast cancer was transformed over the last two centuries from an object of fear, dealt with privately and in isolation, to a matter of enormous individual and collective concern. Robert A. Aronowitz, who is a clinician as well as a historian, draws on lively personal anecdotes as well as more standard archival sources to produce an account with both historical sweep and analytic depth.	1
He argues that the increased visibility of breast cancer from the early nineteenth century to the third quarter of the twentieth century was not simply a reflection of more disease— that is, its natural history—but of clinical, public health, and societal responses to the disease—that is, its unnatural history. Indeed, Aronowitz suggests that while the experience and social implications of breast cancer were radically transformed during that time, medical innovations had little effect on the biological devastation wrought by the disease.	. . .

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