Preventive Strikes

Löwy makes very clear the price that patients continue to pay for medicine's ignorance of the lessons of its history. She has done us all a service.

Penetrating, witty... A major study for doctors and historians alike.

Preventive Strikes: Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery elegantly captures the history of the medicine and the politics.

This book deserves a broad audience beyond the historians of medicine and health policy to which it is most clearly addressed... The questions [Löwy] tackles are of considerable importance both to the history of twentieth-century medicine and to contemporary medical policy.

Clearly of relevance to scholars in a number of fields, certainly beyond that of medical history.

Point[s] to a much deeper understanding of the complex interdependencies that exist between womens' bodies, medicine, technologies, policy makers, health activists, the health industry, and the press... clearly of relevance to scholars in a number of fields, certainly beyond that of medical history.

Ambitious, insightful, and invaluable.

This is how contemporary history of medicine—and the role of science in medicine—should be written.

Preventive Strikes provides an invaluable contribution to ongoing discussions about preventive screening tests by offering provocative arguments about their origins and surprising history.

Preventive Strikes offers a major contribution to critical cancer studies and the histories Löwy traces throughout this book are significant to all interested in medicine, biology, biomedicine, history of science and genetics, and gender and health.