Negotiating disease : power and cancer care, 1900-1950 / Barbara Clow.
Author/creator |
Clow, Barbara Natalie, 1959- |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Publication Info | Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, |
Description | xviii, 237 p. ; 23 cm. |
Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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Series | McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute Studies in the history of medicine, health and society, 1198-4503 ; 12 |
Contents | 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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-232) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2002514823 |
ISBN | 0773522107 |
ISBN | 0773522115 (paper : alk. paper) |
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