Gender and Cancer in England, 1860-1948

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History

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Beskrivning

This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in gendered perceptions of cancer risk, medical and public health efforts to reduce cancer mortality since 1900 have prominently targeted women’s cancers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
Antal sidor:342
Upplaga:2016
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780230554238

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Ornella Moscucci is an independent scholar based in London, UK. She was previously an honorary fellow of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Recensioner i media

“The book is made up of six chapters and moves both chronologically and thematically from the middle of the nineteenth century to the Second World War. … this book gestures towards the troubled relationship between professional self-fashioning and an incurable disease, and in doing so raises many important and timely questions about the role played by cancer in the development of the ideals and practices of modern biomedicine.” (Agnes Arnold-Forster, Social History of Medicine, October, 2017)

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Cancer: a Female Disease.- Chapter 3. The Making of a 'Hopeful' Cancer.- Chapter 4. Gender and Cancer Awareness Campaigns, ca. 1900-1948.- Chapter 5. The Gendered Politics of Radiotherapy.- Chapter 6. Managing Cancer Risk: The Role of Surgery.- Conclusion.