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Incurable and intolerable chronic disease and slow death in nineteenth-century France
Author
Title
Incurable and intolerable [electronic resource] : chronic disease and slow death in nineteenth-century France / Jason Szabo.
ISBN
0813547105
9780813547107
0813545455 (hardcover : alk. paper)
40016778139
9780813545455 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 295 p. :) ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 History Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-287) and index.
Contents
"What are his chances, doctor?" : the semantics of incurability in the nineteenth century
Reinventing hope in the late nineteenth century
"I told you so" : the rhyme and reason of chronic disease
Death, decay, and the genesis of shame
Medical attitudes toward the care of incurables
Medical strategies, social conventions, and palliative medicine
Ecce homo : opiates, suffering, and the art of palliation
The good, the bad, and the ugly : incurability and the quest for goodness
The fate of the incurably ill between the two revolutions, 1789-1848
Caught between initiative and inertia : responses to the incurably ill from 1845 to 1905.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Chronic Disease - psychology - France.
History of Medicine - France.
History, 19th Century - France.
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