Incurable and Intolerable: Chronic Disease and Slow Death in Nineteenth-Century France

by Jason Szabo

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 question: Is there not anything that medical science can offer as solace?

Incurable and Intolerable looks at the history of incurable illness from a variety of perspectives, including those...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813545455
• ISBN13: 9780813545455
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"