The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain

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

"This book offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. The Cancer Problem begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding The Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arnold-Forster, Agnes (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Cancer > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Cancer > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Cancer
Cancer > Social aspects
Great Britain
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • CHARACTERISTICS AND CURES
  • 1. From Home to Hospital
  • 2. Incurability and the Clinic
  • 3. Cancer Therapeutics
  • 4. Cancer Quackery
  • pt. II CAUSES
  • 5. Counting and Mapping Cancer
  • 6. Cancer under the Microscope
  • 7. Making Cancer Modern.

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