In this provocative, pioneering, and wholly engrossing cultural history, noted scholar Marilyn Yalom explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and p

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" ... An absorbing narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted the disease."--Back cover.

Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast can