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

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  • Moscucci, O.

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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.

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  • Moscucci, O., 2005. "Gender and cancer in Britain, 1860-1910: The emergence of cancer as a public health concern," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 95(8), pages 1312-1321.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2004.046458_6
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.046458
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