Ilana Löwy, Preventive strikes: women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, pp. xi, 328, illus., £26.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-9364-3).

Christopher Lawrence

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Ilana Löwy, Preventive strikes: women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, pp. xi, 328, illus., £26.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-9364-3).

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2012

Christopher Lawrence

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The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL

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Information: Medical History , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 541 - 542

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Ilana Löwy, Preventive strikes: women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, pp. xi, 328, illus., £26.00 (hardback 978-0-8018-9364-3).

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