Gender and cancer in Britain, 1860-1910: the emergence of cancer as a public health concern.
Ornella Moscucci;
(2005)
Gender and cancer in Britain, 1860-1910: the emergence of cancer as a public health concern.
American journal of public health, 95 (8).
pp. 1312-1321.
ISSN 0090-0036
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.046458
Historical work on cancer has suggested that a range of political, social, and medical concerns stimulated the emergence of cancer as a public health problem in the early 20th century.I argue that anxiety about cervical cancer mortality was instrumental in establishing cancer as a major focus of concern for the British public health service. This development was closely bound to assumptions about the association of gender with cancer, the redefinition of cancer as a surgical problem, the politics of empire, and the climate of public and medical disquiet about gynecological surgery engendered by feminist and antivivisectionist critiques of medical science.
Item Type | Article |
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Keywords | Circumcision |
ISI | 230857800009 |