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The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster.
LIBRA RC279.G7 A76 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold-Forster, Agnes, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Cancer.
- Cancer--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- Neoplasms.
- Cancer--Social aspects.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Medical Subjects:
- Neoplasms.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 253 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I CHARACTERISTICS AND CURES
- 1. From Home to Hospital
- 2. Incurability and the Clinic
- 3. Cancer Therapeutics
- 4. Cancer Quackery
- pt. II CAUSES
- 5. Counting and Mapping Cancer
- 6. Cancer under the Microscope
- 7. Making Cancer Modern.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: Arnold-Forster, Agnes. Cancer problem.
- ISBN:
- 0198866143
- 9780198866145
- OCLC:
- 1154078692
- Publisher Number:
- 99987051282
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