The Fight Against Cancer - France 1890-1940

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Patrice Pinell, PINELL PATRICE
• Con la collaborazione di: David Madell (Traduzione)
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 22.08.2002
• EAN: 9780415279239
• ISBN: 978-0-415-27923-9
• Pagine: 272
• Peso: 528 g
• Serie: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, History of Science, Social and cultural history