Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction: An Inquiry into Cervical Cancer -- Chapter 2. Carcinoma in Situ: Meanings and Medical Significance -- Chapter 3. Management of Patients with Carcinoma in Situ -- Chapter 4. The Therapeutic Relationship and Patient Consent -- Chapter 5. A Profession Divided -- Chapter 6. Population-based Cervical Screening -- Chapter 7. Four Women Take on the Might of the Medical Profession -- Chapter 8. The Cervical Cancer Inquiry and the 'full story' -- Chapter 9. Media Wars: The Report's Reception -- Chapter 10. New World, Better World? Implementing Cartwright -- Chapter 11. The Aftermath: Public Perceptions of Unethical Practice -- Chapter 12. Conclusion: An 'Unfortunate Experiment'? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

About the Author

Medical historian Linda Bryder is associate professor of history at The University of Auckland. She is the author of A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907-2000 (AUP, 2003) and the editor of A Healthy Country: Essays on the Social History of Medicine in New Zealand (1991).