Incurable and Intolerable : Chronic Disease and Slow Death in Nineteenth-Century France /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Szabo, Jason, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
History, 19th Century > France.
History of Medicine > France.
Chronic Disease > psychology > France.
Palliative treatment > France > History > 19th century.
Chronic diseases > France > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "What are his chances, doctor?" : the semantics of incurability in the nineteenth century
  • Reinventing hope in the late nineteenth century
  • "I told you so" : the rhyme and reason of chronic disease
  • Death, decay, and the genesis of shame
  • Medical attitudes toward the care of incurables
  • Medical strategies, social conventions, and palliative medicine
  • Ecce homo : opiates, suffering, and the art of palliation
  • The good, the bad, and the ugly : incurability and the quest for goodness
  • The fate of the incurably ill between the two revolutions, 1789-1848
  • Caught between initiative and inertia : responses to the incurably ill from 1845 to 1905.

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