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SUMMARY:Imagin(in)g the breast: mammography and breast cancer in the conte
 xt of South-North American exchanges - Yolanda Eraso (University of Oxford
 )
DTSTART:20120124T170000Z
DTEND:20120124T183000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Vanessa Heggie
DESCRIPTION:In the early 1950s breast cancer was a leading cause of cancer
  death for women in the majority of Western societies. Early diagnosis thr
 ough breast self examination (BSE) was the only strategy that cancer organ
 isations and specialists alike promoted in order to improve survival rates
 . At this time\, Uruguayan radiology introduced innovative techniques in b
 reast radiation that opened the path for the definitive incorporation of m
 ammography as an effective diagnostic tool into the clinic. Improved mammo
 graphic images radically changed the perception of breast cancer early dia
 gnosis as mammography became able to detect pre-clinical tumours. This pap
 er proposes to explore the process of dissemination (South-North) of this 
 landmark technique in the history of female cancer within the frame of med
 ical exchanges in the Americas. It will provide insight into how core deve
 lopments in the technology of breast radiology and the development of new 
 categories of cancer diagnosis were the result of locally produced knowled
 ge that circulated and was accumulated in different places.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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