Incurable and intolerable chronic disease and slow death in nineteenth-century France / Jason Szabo.

Author/creator Szabo, Jason, 1965-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
Descriptionx, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-287) and index.
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LCCN 2008035431
ISBN9780813545455 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813545455 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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