Element of Hope: Radium and the Response to Cancer in Canada, 1900-1940McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 12 mai 2005 - 288 pages Charles Hayter chronicles the work of Canadian provinces in establishing the cancer programs that remain the framework for modern systems. Focusing on the compromises these programs required, which anticipated later conflicts over Medicare, Hayter concludes by revealing the historical roots of current problems in cancer care. |
Table des matières
| 3 | |
Radium and the Doctor | 10 |
Radium and the State | 34 |
Radium and the Hospital | 52 |
Cancer Becomes a Social Problem 192030 | 69 |
Cancer Progress in the West | 87 |
The Uneasy Birth of Ontarios Cancer System | 112 |
The Politics of Radon Therapy in the 1930s | 135 |
The Rise and Fall of the Huron Springs Sanatorium | 156 |
The Struggle for a National Program | 168 |
Historical Roots of Current Problems in Cancer Control | 186 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography | 235 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Aikins April Archives BCCF breast cancer British Columbia Canada cancer centres cancer clinics Cancer Commission cancer committee cancer control Cancer Institute cancer patients Cancer Problem cancer program cancer services cancer system cancer treatment cervix CMAJ Cody Commission Control of Cancer CP&R diagnosis disease doctors early established February Fund Gendreau Gordon Richards government's Hensall History Hospital Huron Expositor Ibid Institut du Radium January June London Manitoba March McCullough MCRRI Medical Association medical profession Medicine ment milligrams Minutes Moir Moir's Montreal Munroe Nova Scotia November October Ontario Cancer organization percent physicians practice practitioners province public health purchase of radium QNA E8 Quebec radiation Radiology radiotherapy Radium Institute Radium Therapy radium treatment radon plant Regina role sanatorium Saskatchewan Cancer September Shepley skin Society supply of radium surgeons surgery Therapeutic Toronto General Hospital Toronto Star treated treatment of cancer tumour University University of Toronto Vancouver X-ray