Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-237) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A fatal and incurable disease; The first successes in treatment; Academicism and marginality; War and the birth of the Anti-Cancer League; The beginnings of a policy for the fight against cancer; The policy for the fight against cancer: first contradictions, first reorganisations; The rise of 'big medicine'; Between science and charity: the question of incurables; Publicity, education, supervision; A modern illness; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine