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Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001

1 online resource (xviii, 237 p.)

ISBN 0773522107

ISBN 0773522115 (paper : alk. paper)

McGill-Queen’s/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society, ISSN 1198-4503 ; 12

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-232) and index

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Framing a Response to Disease -- 1 Health Begins at Home: Lay Perceptions of Illness, Disease, and Doctors -- 2 The Problem of Cancer: Doctors, Scientists, and the Dread Disease -- 3 The Contours of Legitimate Medicine: Doctors, Alternative Practitioners, and Cancer -- 4 Cancer Patients Take Care: Sufferers, Healers, and Illness Experiences -- 5 Negotiating a Response to Disease: Politics and Cancer -- Conclusion: Authority, Legitimacy, and the Problem of Cancer -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)929120678

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