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Description

1. x, 295 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Chronic diseases > France > History > 19th century
2. Palliative treatment > France > History > 19th century
3. Chronic Disease > psychology > France
4. History of Medicine > France
5. History, 19th Century > France

Contents

1. "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.

Call number

1. JFE 12-4306

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-287) and index.

Author

1. Szabo, Jason, 1965-

Title

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

Imprint

1. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-287) and index.

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1. Table of contents

LCCN

1. 2008035431

Other standard identifier

1. 40016778139

ISBN

1. 9780813545455 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2. 0813545455 (hardcover : alk. paper)
3. 40016778139
4. 1677813903
5. 9781677813902

Research call number

1. JFE 12-4306