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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
12. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 237 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773569355 0773569359 1282859420 9781282859425 9786612859427 6612859423 |
| ISSN: | 1198-4503 ; |