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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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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