The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-century Britain - Couverture souple

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198885091 ISBN 13 : 9780198885092

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2023

Synopsis

The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It 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 as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America.

The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster is a social, cultural, and medical historian of modern Britain. She is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198885091
• ISBN 13: 9780198885092
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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