Negotiating disease power and cancer care, 1900-1950 /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2001.
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| Serie: | McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Framing a Response to Disease
- 1 Health Begins at Home: Lay Perceptions of Illness, Disease, and Doctors
- 2 The Problem of Cancer: Doctors, Scientists, and the Dread Disease
- 3 The Contours of Legitimate Medicine: Doctors, Alternative Practitioners, and Cancer
- 4 Cancer Patients Take Care: Sufferers, Healers, and Illness Experiences
- 5 Negotiating a Response to Disease: Politics and Cancer
- Conclusion: Authority, Legitimacy, and the Problem of Cancer
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.