The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster.

  • Arnold-Forster, Agnes
Date:
2021
  • Books

About this work

Description

The cancer problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth Century Britain argues that it was in that nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicalised status it maintains today. Trough an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease’s incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present.

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Physical description

vi, 253 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ,maps ; 24 cm

Edition

First edition.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

List of figures – Introduction: Malignancy in Nineteenth – Century Britain – Part 1. Characteristics and cures – 1. From home to hospital – 2. Incurability and the clinic – 3. Cancer therapeutics – 4. Cancer quackery -- Part II. Causes – 5. Counting and mapping cancer – 6. Cancer under microscope – 7. Making cancer modern – Conclusion: Then and now.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    GM.41
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0198866143
  • 9780198866145