The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Arnold-Forster, Agnes

The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198866145)

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The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Arnold-Forster, Agnes

The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

$105.00
The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Arnold-Forster, Agnes

The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

$105.00
Format: 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.

Author: Agnes Arnold-Forster
ISBN-10: 0198866143
ISBN-13: 9780198866145
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.90d

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Choice 04/01/2022
By Agnes Arnold-Forster
By Agnes Arnold-Forster
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Agnes Arnold-Forster, Research and Engagement Fellow, University of Roehampton, UK

Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster is a social, cultural, and medical historian of modern Britain. She is a postdoctoral research and engagement fellow on the Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, Surgery & Emotion, based at the University of Roehampton. She completed her PhD at King's College London in 2017 and has published widely in journals such as Social History of Medicine, Medical Humanities, and the British Medical Journal.

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