Negotiating disease [electronic resource] : power and cancer care, 1900-1950 / Barbara Clow.
By: Clow, Barbara Natalie.
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BookSeries: McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society: 12.Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001Description: xviii, 237 p.Subject(s): Cancer -- Alternative treatment -- Canada | Cancer -- Government policy -- Canada | Medical personnel and patient -- Canada -- History | Cancer -- Traitement -- Ontario -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecleGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.19699400971 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-232) and index.
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.
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