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Educational TalkEducational TalkIndeterminable Therapy: Women, Cancer, and Radiation in Korea, 1930s-1970s
Stanford
Explore how radiation therapy for women's cancer in Korea carried shifting, gendered meanings from the 1930s through the 1970s. Dartmouth historian Soyoung Suh traces how X-rays, radium, and cobalt-60 moved from military origins into medical practice, revealing the persistent ambiguities in how doctors and patients understood these powerful treatments.
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Indeterminable Therapy: Women, Cancer, and Radiation in Korea, 1930s-1970s
Stanford
Educational TalkEducational TalkExplore how radiation therapy for women's cancer in Korea carried shifting, gendered meanings from the 1930s through the 1970s. Dartmouth historian Soyoung Suh traces how X-rays, radium, and cobalt-60 moved from military origins into medical practice, revealing the persistent ambiguities in how doctors and patients understood these powerful treatments.
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