Incurable and intolerable
Subtitle: chronic disease and slow death in nineteenth-century France
By: Jason Szabo.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780813545455
Subjects: Chronic diseases -- France -- History -- 19th century; Palliative treatment -- France -- History -- 19th century; Chronic Disease -- psychology -- France; History of Medicine -- France; History, 19th Century -- France
Description: Terminal illness and the pain and anguish it brings are experiences that have touched millions of people in the past and continue to shape our experience of the present. Hospital machines that artificially support life and monitor vital signs beg the que.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "What are his chances, doctor?" : the semantics of incurability in the nineteenth century; title: Reinventing hope in the late nineteenth century; title: "I told you so" : the rhyme and reason of chronic disease; title: Death, decay, and the genesis of shame; title: Medical attitudes toward the care of incurables; title: Medical strategies, social conventions, and palliative medicine; title: Ecce homo : opiates, suffering, and the art of palliation; title: The good, the bad, and the ugly : incurability and the quest for goodness; title: The fate of the incurably ill between the two revolutions, 1789, 1848; title: Caught between initiative and inertia : responses to the incurably ill from 1845 to 1905.