The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain /

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.

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CHARACTERISTICS AND CURES --
From Home to Hospital --
Incurability and the Clinic --
Cancer Therapeutics --
Cancer Quackery --
CAUSES --
Counting and Mapping Cancer --
Cancer under the Microscope --
Making Cancer Modern.
1. Verfasser:
Arnold-Forster, Agnes
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (264 pages)
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-263574-3
0-19-263575-1
0-19-189772-8
Schlagworte:
1800-1899
History.
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