The Fight Against Cancer

France 1890-1940
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-415-75380-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Between the two World Wars an illness that mainly affects adults over fifty years old became so prominent that it superseded both tuberculosis and syphilis in importance.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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pinell, Patrice

Weitere Mitwirkende

Madell, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.