Patrice Pinell

The Fight Against Cancer (eBook, ePUB)

France 1890-1940
Übersetzer: Madell, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134467563
• Artikelnr.: 42640597

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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