Gender and cancer in Britain, 1860-1910 : The emer... Catalogue en ligne

Titre :	Gender and cancer in Britain, 1860-1910 : The emergence of cancer as a public health concern. (2005)
Auteurs :	MOSCUCCI (Ornella) : GBR. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London England.
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	American journal of public health (vol. 95, n° 8, 2005)
Pagination :	1312-1321
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Cancer ; Sexe ; Grande Bretagne ; Royaume Uni ; Europe ; Histoire ; Epidémiologie ; Homme
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS aTNZhR0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. 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.

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