Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer

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Autor(a) principal: Löwy,Ilana
Data de Publicação: 2010
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: História. Ciências. Saúde-Manguinhos
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Resumo: Cytological screening for cervical cancer (the Pap smear), the first attempt at mass screening for a human malignancy, is often presented as a non-problematic demonstration of the feasibility of such screening. Screening for this tumor became a model for screening for other malignancies: breast, colon and prostate. My text follows the early history of the Pap smear and the conditions that led to its transformation into a routine screening test, despite persistent problems in stabilizing the readings of microscopic slides. It then analyzes the consequences of diffusion of the Pap smear, controversies surrounding this test, the mutual shaping of diagnostic tests and the disease cervical cancer, and the problematic extension of the lessons learned in screening for cervical tumors to other malignancies.
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title Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer
spellingShingle Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer
Löwy,Ilana
cervical cancer
Pap smear
cancer screening
cancer activism
public health
title_short Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer
title_full Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer
title_fullStr Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer
title_full_unstemmed Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer
title_sort Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer
author Löwy,Ilana
author_facet Löwy,Ilana
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Löwy,Ilana
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv cervical cancer
Pap smear
cancer screening
cancer activism
public health
topic cervical cancer
Pap smear
cancer screening
cancer activism
public health
description Cytological screening for cervical cancer (the Pap smear), the first attempt at mass screening for a human malignancy, is often presented as a non-problematic demonstration of the feasibility of such screening. Screening for this tumor became a model for screening for other malignancies: breast, colon and prostate. My text follows the early history of the Pap smear and the conditions that led to its transformation into a routine screening test, despite persistent problems in stabilizing the readings of microscopic slides. It then analyzes the consequences of diffusion of the Pap smear, controversies surrounding this test, the mutual shaping of diagnostic tests and the disease cervical cancer, and the problematic extension of the lessons learned in screening for cervical tumors to other malignancies.
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