| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; 17.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A fatal and incurable disease; The first successes in treatment; Academicism and marginality; War and the birth of the Anti-Cancer League; The beginnings of a policy for the fight against cancer; The policy for the fight against cancer: first contradictions, first reorganisations; The rise of 'big medicine'; Between science and charity: the question of incurables; Publicity, education, supervision; A modern illness; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-237) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cancer -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Medical Oncology -- history
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History, 20th Century
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Neoplasms -- prevention & control
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MEDICAL -- Oncology.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
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Cancer
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| SUBJECT |
France |
| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203219651 |
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9780203219652 |
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9781134467570 |
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1134467575 |
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9781134467525 |
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1134467524 |
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9781134467563 |
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1134467567 |
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9780415279239 |
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0415279232 |
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9780415753807 |
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0415753805 |
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