The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster.

The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster.

First edition.

9780191897726 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

English

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations,maps.

RC279

614.5999094109034

This is a medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in 19th-century Britain. The book 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.

This is a medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in 19th-century Britain. The book 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.

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