The cancer problem : malignancy in nineteenth-century Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191897726 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Cancer -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Cancer -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198866145DDC classification: 614.5999094109034 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
This edition also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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