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A History of Prostate Cancer - Helen Valier

A History of Prostate Cancer

Cancer, Men and Medicine

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
241 Seiten
2021 | 2016 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-73938-7 (ISBN)
CHF 86,90 inkl. MwSt
This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. As diseases of the prostate, including prostate cancer, came to be better understood in the early twentieth century, therapeutic nihilism continued as curative radical surgeries and radiotherapy failed.
This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. Until recently, little practical help could be offered for men afflicted with the devastating diseases of the genitourinary organs. This is despite complaints of painful urination from aging men being found in ancient medical manuscripts, despite the anatomical discoveries of the European Renaissance and despite the experimental surgical researches of the eighteen and nineteenth centuries. As diseases of the prostate, including prostate cancer, came to be better understood in the early twentieth century, therapeutic nihilism continued as curative radical surgeries and radiotherapy failed. The therapeutic ‘turn’ came with hormonal therapies, itself a product of the explosive growth of U.S. biomedicine from the 1940s onwards. By the 1990s, prostate cancer screening had become a somewhat ubiquitous but controversial feature of the medical encounter for American menas they aged, which greatly influenced the treatment pathways and identity of the male patient: as victim, as hero, and ultimately, as consumer.

Helen Valier is Director of the Medicine & Society Program at The Honors College, University of Houston, USA. Her teaching and research interests fall broadly within western and colonial/postcolonial medicine and technology from late nineteenth to late twentieth century.

1. Introduction: Cancer and the making of modern medicine. - 2. The problematic prehistory of prostate cancer. - 3. Surgery and Specialization. - 4. Sex, Hormones, and Quantification. - 5. Cancer and clinical trials. - 6. Screening, Patients, and the Politics of Prevention. - 7. Radiotherapy and Evidence in an Age of High Technology. - 8. Conclusions: Medicine, masculinity, and the problems of the prostate

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
Zusatzinfo X, 241 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte America • American Biomedicine • American History • biomedicine • History • History of Literature • History of Patients • Masculinity • Medicine • patients
ISBN-10 1-349-73938-3 / 1349739383
ISBN-13 978-1-349-73938-7 / 9781349739387
Zustand Neuware
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