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The Cancer Problem
- Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Engelsk Paperback
The Cancer Problem
- Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780198885092
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198885091
Udg. Dato:
31 aug 2023
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
235mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
31 aug 2023
Forfatter(e):
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