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The Dread Disease
Cancer and Modern American Culture
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James T. Patterson
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English
Published/Copyright:
1987
About this book
In a subtle and penetrating cultural history, Patterson examines reactions to the disease through a century of American life. Readers interested in the cultural dimensions of science and medicine as well as historians, sociologists, and political scientists will be enlightened and challenged by this book.
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[Cancer] has a special place in our medical history and social imagination. Patterson’s impressive achievement is to unearth that history, to bring out its cultural roots and manifestations, and to show why cancer was, and still remains, ‘the dread disease.’ It is a story worth knowing…and one well and richly told here.
-- Daniel Callahan Philadelphia Inquirer
-- Daniel Callahan Philadelphia Inquirer
This is an illuminating study of medical politics and ideology, promises and fears, developing some of the speculations of Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, and highly suggestive for the AIDS generation… [Patterson] puts his finger upon one key feature of cancerphobia…the American urge to play out even the most secret of fears under the full glare of publicity.
-- Roy Porter Times Literary Supplement
-- Roy Porter Times Literary Supplement
Masterful, comprehensive, highly readable… The Dread Disease is all in one a historical, sociological, psychological and political analysis… An in-depth, fascinating account of a full spectrum of views on cancer reflected not only in the scientific literature, but also in novels, newspapers, films and the experiences of cancer victims… Fascinating reading.
-- Elizabeth Whelan Washington Times
-- Elizabeth Whelan Washington Times
Some of the most perceptive writing yet produced on America’s response to cancer… [A] fine, important book.
-- Daniel S. Greenberg Nature
-- Daniel S. Greenberg Nature
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July 1, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9780674041936
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396
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9780674041936
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