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Chronic disease in the twentieth century : a history /

Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century challenges the conventional wisdom that the concept of chronic disease emerged because medicine's ability to cure infectious disease led to changing patterns of disease. Instead, it suggests, the concept was constructed and has evolved to serve a variety...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Weisz, George (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • "National vitality" and physical examination
  • Expanding public health
  • Almshouses, hospitals, and the sick poor
  • New Deal politics and the National Health Survey
  • Mobilizing against chronic illness at midcentury
  • Long-term care
  • Public health and prevention
  • Health, wealth, and the state
  • Alternative paths in the United Kingdom
  • Maladies chroniques in France.