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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szabo, Jason, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chronic diseases--France--History--19th century.

Chronic diseases.

Palliative treatment--France--History--19th century.

Palliative treatment.

Chronic Disease--psychology.

History.

France.

History of Medicine.

History, 19th Century.

Medical Subjects:

Chronic Disease--psychology.

France.

History of Medicine.

History, 19th Century.

Physical Description:

295 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813545455

0813545455

OCLC:

243818550