Redefining Cancer during the Interwar Period

• Autores: Rosa M. Medina Domenech, Claudia Castañeda
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 97, Nº. 9, 2007, págs. 1563-1571
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The implementation of radiation technologies within the British hospital system was a significant element in the establishment of the managerial organization of medicine in the interwar period.One aspect of this implementation process was that, in order to install cancer patients within the ?radiotherapy factory,? British medical officers of health adapted their organizational cultures from being environmentalists to being administrators of medical services.One of the consequences of this change was the accomplishment of a much more reductive approach to cancer compared with a more holistic approach to the disease.