- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 295 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Incurable and intolerable (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Incurable and intolerable (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-287) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2008035431
- OCLC
- ssj0000361570
- Author
Szabo, Jason, 1965-
- Title
Incurable and intolerable [electronic resource] : chronic disease and slow death in nineteenth-century France / Jason Szabo.
- Imprint
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-287) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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