Negotiating disease : power and cancer care, 1900-1950 /
"Criticism of conventional medicine is often regarded as a product of the 1960s. Before then, "scientific medicine" enjoyed uncontested cultural prestige, with kindly but strict doctors wielding unquestioned authority over grateful patients while "quacks" flogged dubious rem...
| Основен автор: | Clow, Barbara Natalie, 1959- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2001.
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| Серия: |
McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
12. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Negotiating disease. |
Съдържание:
- 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.