Gender and cancer in Britain, 1860-1910: The emergence of cancer as a public health concern

O. Moscucci

American Journal of Public Health, 2005, vol. 95, issue 8, 1312-1321

Abstract: 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. 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.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.046458

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