History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany

This study details the history of cancer and emotions in twentieth-century Germany and thus follows the cancer-associated transformations of emotional regimes, emotional politics, and emotional experiences through five different political systems.

List of contents

• 1: Writing the History of Emotions


• 2: Researching Cancer


• 3: Cancer Awareness


• 4: Talking about Cancer


• 5: Experiencing Cancer


• 6: Cancer and Emotions in the Twentieth Century

About the author

Bettina Hitzer is Heisenberg Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the Technical University Dresden as well as Privatdozentin at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2014-2020, she was Leader of the Minerva Research Group 'Emotions and Illness: Histories of an Intricate Relation' at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. She was awarded the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her most recent book, Krebs fühlen (2020) and in 2016 the Walter-de-Gruyter Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She is the author or (co-)editor of ten books, most recently Feeling Disease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness (with Rob Boddice; forthcoming) and In unsere Mitte genommen: Adoption im 20. Jahrhundert (with Benedikt Stuchtey; forthcoming). Currently, she is working on a research project about the post-1945 history of adoption in East and West Germany.

Summary

This study details the history of cancer and emotions in twentieth-century Germany and thus follows the cancer-associated transformations of emotional regimes, emotional politics, and emotional experiences through five different political systems.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Bresnahan, Bettina Hitzer, Bettina (Heisenberg Fellow Hitzer, Hitzer Bettina
• Assisted by: Adam Bresnahan (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780192868077
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286807-7
• No. of pages: 406
• Series: Emotions in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history