Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewThis comprehensive and meticulously researched book will provide an excellent reference guide for academic research, at the same time it is a book that the general reader with an interest in the social and cultural history of medicine will find accessible and absorbing. * Kathleen Beal, British Association for Victorian Studies *
The Cancer Problem offers an excellent, well-researched, and often surprising history of this disease and the professionalization surrounding it. There have been few historical studies of cancer in the nineteenth century, and every chapter of The Cancer Problem offers original insights. * Pamela K. Gilbert, Journal of British Studies *
The book will be welcomed by historians of Britain, scholars interested in cross-cultural studies, and historians of medicine and science. * Choice *
It would not surprise me if this monograph is still considered a seminal study in decades to come due to its high quality and breaking of new academic ground. * Ian Miller, Ulster University *
This book is certainly an important addition to the historiography of cancer, as it treads the fields of both cultural history and the more traditional history of medicine and science. Indeed, this book will be an important addition to historians studying the history of cancer, but it should likewise be of interest to a variety of scholars studying broader topics in medical history, the history of science, or the cultural and social history of England. * Dimitry Zakharov, Canadian Journal of Health History *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
