Phd. Vernanne Bryan

Women Warriors: a History of Courage in the Battle Against Cancer Phd. Vernanne Bryan

Women Warriors is an insightful medical-humanities book amazingly developed within the rigid corridors of the medical sciences for the informative purposes of not only academia, but the mass reading audience. It is a conservative book in range and scope. In medical science, due to the text's interdisciplinary in contrast to the traditional purely scientific, Women Warriors is considered controversial in the discipline of medicine in academia. In the academic halls of the humanities, the scope of this kind of combined accomplishment is viewed as nothing short of a miracle. The text is a compassionate and dedicated work written for the benefit of both men and women. The title Women Warriors and the subsequent battle terminology for chapter headings was developed by the authors who discovered by consensus that the women who fight cancer call themselves warriors, thus the main title and overall military theme. The vast and well-researched information within this text was carefully garnered at the medical schools of Yale University and the University of California, Los Angeles under the support and guidance of a world renown physician and others also listed in the Acknowledgments. Upon a dedicated read of Women Warriors, one discovers an immeasurable resource of knowledge that will enlighten and change your outlook forever on this ancient dreaded disease: The Introduction in Chapter I supplies intricate and definitive information on the research methodology developed and utilized that will provide for the reader a solid basis for how the authors researched and analyzed the vast sources of information contained within the text. Chapter II gives one a fascinating tour of history from ancient Greece to the capital of the most powerful nation in the world. In it you will discover not only the historical mysteries of women's cancer, but also the human values issues surrounding women (some of which are still in practice in the contemporary world), the strange and dark side of the