A History of Lung Cancer [electronic resource] : The Recalcitrant Disease /
Timmermann, C.author.
The first comprehensive history of lung cancer from around 1800 to the present day; a story of doctors and patients, hopes and fears, expectations and frustrations. Where most histories of medicine focus on progress, Timmermann asks what happens when medical progress does not seem to make much difference.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: The History of a Recalcitrant Disease; 2 Lung Cancer and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century: Bodies, Tissues, Cells and the Making of a Rare Disease; 3 Lungs in the Operating Theatre, circa 1900 to 1950; 4 Science, Medicine and Politics: Lung Cancer and Smoking, circa 1945 to 1965; 5 Trials and Tribulations: Lung Cancer Treatment, circa 1950 to 1970; 6 More Enthusiasm, Please: Preventing, Screening, Treating, Classifying, circa 1960 to 1990
7 The Management of Stigma: Lung Cancer and Charity, circa 1990 to 20008 Still Recalcitrant? Some Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The first comprehensive history of lung cancer from around 1800 to the present day; a story of doctors and patients, hopes and fears, expectations and frustrations. Where most histories of medicine focus on progress, Timmermann asks what happens when medical progress does not seem to make much difference.
History, Modern.
History.
Medicine-History.
World history.
Social history.
Europe-History.
Modern History.
History of Science.
History of Medicine.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Social History.
European History.