The Dread Disease : : Cancer and Modern American Culture / / James T. Patterson.
Cancer is that "loathsome beast, which seized upon the breast, drove its long claws into the surrounding tissues, derived its sustenance by sucking out the juices of its victims, and never even relaxed its hold in death," a turn-of-the-century physician recorded. Even today cancer affects...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PROLOGUE The Travail of General Grant
- 1 Cancerphobia in the Late Nineteenth Century
- 2 The Rise of the Doctors
- 3 The Alliance against Cancer
- 4 The Wilderness Years
- 5 Government Joins the Fight
- 6 Hymns to Science and Prayers to God
- 7 The Research Explosion
- 8 Smoking and Cancer
- 9 Popular Fears, Official Dreams
- 10 The Alliance under Siege
- 11 More Promises, More Fears
- Bibliographic Note
- Notes
- Index