Negotiating disease : power and cancer care, 1900-1950 /
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2001.
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| Colecção: | McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
12. |
| Acesso em linha: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=404629 |
Sumário:
- 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.