In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 From Plato to Polio Chronic Disease in Historical Context -- Chapter 2 An Awakening Medicine and Illness in Post-World War Two America -- Chapter 3 Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness -- Chapter 4 The Women's Health Movement and Patient Empowerment -- Chapter 5 Culture, Consumerism, and Character Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s -- Chapter 6 A Slight Hysterical Tendency Revisiting "The Girl Who Cried Pain" -- Chapter 7 Into the Fray Patients in the Digital Age -- Chapter 8 Participatory Medicine and Transparency -- Chapter 9 What Future, at What Cost? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Note on the Author -- By the Same Author -- eCopyright.