Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue : across time
Dark ages
Unkindest cut of all : the origins of the mastectomy
William Stewart Halsted and the radical mastectomy
Superradicals and the medicine of mutilation
New beginnings : assault on the radical mastectomy
Beauty and the breast : the great American obsession
Out of the closet : breast cancer in the 1970s
Patient heal thyself : quacks and cures in the age of narcissism
Choices : medical treatment in the age of liberation
Breast cancer wars
Biology, society, and destiny
Epilogue : the new millenium.