The Cancer Problem by Agnes Arnold-Forster - 9780198885092

The Cancer ProblemMalignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain\nAuthor(s): Agnes Arnold-Forster\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198885092, 978-0198885092\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\nThe Cancer Problem: Malignancy .