The cancer problem malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain Arnold-Forster, Agnes creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2021 2021 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource "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 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. It 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"--Publisher's description. 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. Agnes Arnold-Forster. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk--- Cancer Great Britain History 19th century Cancer Social aspects Great Britain Neoplasms Cancer Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle Cancer Aspect social Grande-Bretagne Cancer Cancer Social aspects Great Britain 1800-1899 fast RC279.G7 A76 2021 614.5999 QZ 16 .A752c 2021 Cancer problem Arnold-Forster, Agnes. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021 First edition. (OCoLC)1154078692 9780191897726 0191897728 0198866143 9780198866145 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/32063 YDX 200925 20260319182722.7 in00005718982 eng