An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

OLSON, James Stuart

2 entries
  • 8735

The history of cancer: An annotated bibliography.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989.


Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › Bibliographies of Specific Diseases, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › History of Oncology & Cancer
  • 12576

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, cancer and history.

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

"Olson, who lost his left hand and forearm to cancer while writing this book, provides an absorbing and often frightening narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted the disease, from Theodora to Anne of Austria, Louis XIV's mother, who confronted "nun's disease" by perfecting the art of dying well, to Dr. Jerri Nielson, who was dramatically evacuated from the South Pole in 1999 after performing a biopsy on her own breast and self-administering chemotherapy."



Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › History of Oncology & Cancer