Cancer Problem - Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Zusatztext Beautifully written and doggedly researched, The Cancer Problem is the very best that the cultural history of medicine has to offer. Informationen zum Autor Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster is a social, cultural, and medical historian of modern Britain. She is a postdoctoral research and engagement fellow on the Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, Surgery & Emotion, based at the University of Roehampton. She completed her PhD at King's College London in 2017 and has published widely in journals such as Social History of Medicine, Medical Humanities, and the British Medical Journal. Klappentext This is the first history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It demonstrates that the nineteenth century saw cancer acquire the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Zusammenfassung This is the first history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It demonstrates that the nineteenth century saw cancer acquire the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain Part One: Characteristics and Cure 1: From Home to Hospital 2: Incurability and the Clinic 3: Cancer Therapeutics 4: Cancer Quackery Part Two: Causes 5: Counting and Mapping Cancer 6: Cancer under the Microscope 7: Making Cancer Modern Conclusion: Cancer Then and Now

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• Authors: Agnes Arnold-Forster, Agnes (Research and Engagement Fel Arnold-Forster
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.2021
• EAN: 9780198866145
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886614-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, Oncology, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history