Fight Against Cancer - France 1890-1940

Between the two World Wars an illness that mainly affects adults over fifty years old became so prominent that it superseded both tuberculosis and syphilis in importance.
As Patrice Pinell shows, the effect of cancer in France before World War Two reached far beyond the question of its mortality rates. Pinell's socio-historical approach to the early developments in the fight against cancer describes how scientific, therapeutic, philanthropic, ethical, social, economics and political interest combined to transform medicine.

List of contents

1. A Fatal and Incurable Disease 2. The First Successes in Treatment 3. Academicism and Marginality 4. War and the Birth of the Anti-Cancer League 5. The Beginnings of a Policy for the Fight Against Cancer 6. First Contradictions, First Reorganisations 7. The Turning Point of Serious Medicine 8. Between Science and Charity, the Question of Incurables 9. Publicity, Education, Supervision 10. A Modern Illness

About the author

Patrice Pinell is Directeur de Recherche at the Institut National de la Recherche Médical (INSERM). He is an historian and sociologist of medicine, and has worked on topics such as the medicalization of school failures (Un siécle d'éches scolaires), the anti cancer war (Naissance d'un Fléau), the AIDS movement in France (Un épidémie politique), and the history of Muscular Dystrophy.

Summary

This socio-historical approach to the early developments in the fight against cancer describes how scientific, therapeutic, philanthropic, ethical, social, economics and political interest combined to transform medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Patrice Pinell, Pinell Patrice
• Assisted by: David Madell (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2016
• EAN: 9780415753807
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75380-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Routledge Studies in the Histo; Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, History of Science, Social and cultural history