Negotiating disease : power and cancer care, 1900-1950 / Barbara Clow.

By:

Clow, Barbara Natalie, 1959-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 12.Publication details: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 237 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780773569355
0773569359
1282859420
9781282859425

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Negotiating disease.DDC classification:

362.19699400971 21

LOC classification:

RC279.C2 C56 2001eb

NLM classification:

2002 H-749
QZ 11 DC2

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Contents:

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.

Review: "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 remedies to the poor and credulous - or so go popular perceptions and, for the most part, received scholarly wisdom. But the very nature of cancer - mysterious, capricious, and deadly - challenged medical authority in the past as much as it does today, and in Negotiating Disease Barbara Clow lays to rest old assumptions about the monopoly of health care by doctors in the first half of the twentieth century."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index.

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"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 remedies to the poor and credulous - or so go popular perceptions and, for the most part, received scholarly wisdom. But the very nature of cancer - mysterious, capricious, and deadly - challenged medical authority in the past as much as it does today, and in Negotiating Disease Barbara Clow lays to rest old assumptions about the monopoly of health care by doctors in the first half of the twentieth century."--Jacket

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