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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Clow, Barbara Natalie, 1959-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
Collection:McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 12.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xviii, 237 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index.
ISBN:9780773569355
0773569359
1282859420
9781282859425
9786612859427
6612859423
ISSN:1198-4503 ;