Negotiating disease power and cancer care, 1900-1950 / [electronic resource] :
Barbara Clow.
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
- xviii, 237 p.
- McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society, 12 1198-4503 ; .
- McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 12. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-232) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Cancer--Alternative treatment--Canada. Cancer--Government policy--Canada. Medical personnel and patient--History.--Canada Cancer--Traitement--Histoire--Ontario--20e si�ecle.