Medical history
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Screening mammography burst onto the stage of national consciousness in 1973, when it did, it found an audience prime to receive it. Political, social and health movements that had been occurring in the larger American society underwent a remarkable convergence in the late 1960s to mid 1970s. This was precisely the time when the results of the earliest medical research on mammography were becoming widely known, though it is likely that this new screening test would have been successful on its own. This fortuitous alignment of external forces helped ensure that public acceptance would be rapid and durable. In this chapter, I examined the three principal movements that's at the stage for screening. Mammography is auspicious debut in its subsequent history. Newer incarnations of these same forces would surface repeatedly, particularly at times of great controversy.