Gender and cancer in England, 1860-1948. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ornella Moscucci.
• Authors: Moscucci, Ornella
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Cancer: A 'Female' Disease; Explaining People's Liability to Cancer; Women's Proclivity to Cancer; A Geography of Women's Cancers: Alfred Haviland's Geological Theory; Hunting for the Cancer Microbe; Gender Differentials in Cancer Mortality: A Narrowing Gap?; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: The Making of a 'Hopeful' Cancer; Uterine Cancer in the Nineteenth Century: A Hopeless, Fatal Disease; The Meanings of Incurability; The Problem of Diagnosing 'Early' Uterine Cancer The Microscope Comes to the Aid (or Not)'Early' Uterine Cancer and Surgical Curability Before 1860; The Second Wave of Surgical Activism, c.1860-1880; The Revival of Total Abdominal Hysterectomy for Uterine Cancer; A Question of Comparisons; Vaginal Hysterectomy: A Story of Unfulfilled Promise; Redefining the Meaning of Cure; Critiques of Vaginal Hysterectomy; The Notion of 'Delay'; Improving Operability; The Controversy in Context; A Message of Hope; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Gender and Cancer Awareness Campaigns in England, c.1900-1948; The Crusade Agaist Cancer of the Uterus Tuberculosis and Cancer ComparedPreventing Mortality; Methods and Strategies; The First Campaign Against Uterine Cancer; Public Education Between the Wars: The Changing Context of a Contested Idea; Confusing Messages; Public Campaigns and Service Provision; Gender, Cancer and the Medical Officer of Health; An Alternative Model: The Yorkshire Campaign; The BECC Finally Enters the Field; Post-War Developments; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Published Sources; Chapter 5: The Gendered Politics of Radiotherapy; The Dawn of Radiation Therapy: X-rays; The Dawn of Radiation Therapy: Radium Radium in GynaecologyStandardizing Therapy; The Case for Centralization; The MWF's Radium Research Scheme; The Marie Curie Hospital; Scalpel or Rays? The Statistical Debate; Comparing Treatment Outcomes: The Origins of the 'Staging' Concept; Cancer in Women: Radium Therapy for the London Poor; Another Sort of Cumulation: Radiotherapy with Surgery; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Published Sources; Chapter 6: Visions of Utopia; What Is 'Latent' Carcinoma of the Cervix?; Schiller's Test; Hinselmann's Colposcope; Diagnosing Cervical Cancer from Cells; 'Screening' for Disease in America The Vaginal Smear: From Diagnostic to Screening TestBritish Attitudes to Screening; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Managing Cancer Risk: The Role of Prophylactic Surgery; A Stitch in Time; Primum: Non Nocere; Redundant Organs; Circumcision: Surgical Vaccine or Mutilation?; The Controversial Ovary; The Pre-Cancerous Uterus; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Bibliography; Primary Bibliography; Secondary Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Springer Science and Business Media Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.9940082; 900; History; Cancer -- Sex factors -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Cancer -- Sex factors -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; HISTORY / Civilization; HISTORY / Essays; HISTORY / Reference; HISTORY / Social History; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General; MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL / Diseases; MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL / Internal Medicine; Cancer -- Sex factors; History -- Modern -- General; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; Social Science -- Gender Studies; History -- Social History; History: earliest times to present day; British & Irish history; Gender studies, gender groups; Social & cultural history; History, Modern; Sociology; Social history; History -- Europe -- General; European history; Great Britain; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781349601097; 1349601098
• Related ISBNs: 9780230554238; 0230554237
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 1, 2017).
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