RT Journal
A1 Berlin L
T1 The big squeeze: A social and political history of the controversial mammogram
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD December 19
VO 308
IS 23
SP 2521
OP 2522
DO 10.1001/jama.308.23.2521
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.308.23.2521
AB 
No other medical test comes close to evoking the degree of passion and controversy that mammography does. Indeed, it is rare today to pick up a newspaper or magazine without being confronted with a controversial article about screening mammography. Does mammography reduce mortality from breast cancer, and if so, to what degree? Is mammography harmful to patients because of overdiagnosis or the radiation to which patients are exposed during the procedure? Do benefits of mammography exceed the potential harms? Why and how did the debate shift from a scientific to a political one? The Big Squeeze: A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram by radiologist-mammographer Handel Reynolds provides answers to these questions by taking readers on a fascinating and enlightening 50-year journey, beginning with the introduction of mammography in the early 1960s.