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The Cancer Problem - Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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The Cancer Problem - Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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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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