In the kingdom of the sick a social history of chronic illness in America
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Walker & Co.,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 From Plato to Polio Chronic Disease in Historical Context
- ch. 2 An Awakening Medicine and Illness in Post-World War Two America
- ch. 3 Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness
- ch. 4 The Women's Health Movement and Patient Empowerment
- ch. 5 Culture, Consumerism, and Character Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s
- ch. 6 A Slight Hysterical Tendency Revisiting "The Girl Who Cried Pain"
- ch. 7 Into the Fray Patients in the Digital Age
- ch. 8 Participatory Medicine and Transparency
- ch. 9 What Future, at What Cost?.
- Introduction
- From Plato to polio: chronic disease in historical context
- An awakening: medicine and illness in post-World War Two America
- Disability rights, civil rights, and chronic illness
- The Women's Health Movement and patient empowerment
- Culture, consumerism, and character: chronic illness and patient advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s
- A slight hysterical tendency: revisiting "The girl who cried pain"
- Into the fray: patients in the digital age
- Participatory medicine and transparency
- What future, at what cost?
