Negotiating Disease, Volume 12: Power and Cancer Care, 1900-1950

by Barbara Clow

Her detailed analysis of popular beliefs and behaviours reveals the compelling logic of personal decisions about health and healing. Experience and expectation, not fear and ignorance, shaped the health care choices of both cancer sufferers and the "healthy" public. A close examination of three unconventional practitioners in Ontario demonstrates the importance and vitality of alternative medicine. By presenting treatment options that were congenial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773522115
• ISBN13: 9780773522114
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"