Fight Against Cancer

<p>Between the two World Wars an illness that mainly affects adults over fifty years old became so prominent that it superseded both tuberculosis and syphilis in importance.<br>As Patrice Pinell shows, the effect of cancer in France before World War Two reached far beyond the question of its mortality rates. Pinell's socio-historical approach to the early developments in the fight against cancer describes how scientific, therapeutic, philanthropic, ethical, social, economics and political interest combined to transform medicine.</p> 1. A Fatal and Incurable Disease 2. The First Successes in Treatment 3. Academicism and Marginality 4. War and the Birth of the Anti-Cancer League 5. The Beginnings of a Policy for the Fight Against Cancer 6. First Contradictions, First Reorganisations 7. The Turning Point of Serious Medicine 8. Between Science and Charity, the Question of Incurables 9. Publicity, Education, Supervision 10. A Modern Illness