Fitter, happier : The eugenic strain in twentieth-century cancer rhetoric / Lois Peters Agnew.
Agnew, Lois Peters, author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2024
RC276 .A25 2024
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Title Fitter, happier : The eugenic strain in twentieth-century cancer rhetoric / Lois Peters Agnew.
Author Agnew, Lois Peters, author.
ISBN 9780817394875
0817394877
9780817321857
0817321853
9780817361341
0817361340
Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2024]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number RC276 .A25 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.19699/4
Access Note Access limited to authorized users
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2024).
Added Corporate Author ProQuest (Firm)
Series Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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Intro
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. US Cancer Rhetoric: Constructing a People
1. Publicizing Cancer: Eugenic Visibility
2. Battling Cancer: Heroism and Eugenics
3. Thinking Positive: Progressing beyond Cancer
4. Knowledge, Power, and Cancer Prevention
5. Eugenic Reverberations: What Rhetoric Tells Us about Cancer-and Ourselves
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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