The first comprehensive history of lung cancer from around 1800 to the present day; a story of doctors and patients, hopes and fears, expectations and frustrations. Where most histories of medicine focus on progress, Timmermann asks what happens when medical progress does not seem to make much difference.

Autorentext

Carsten Timmermann is a Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK. He is the editor (with Elizabeth Toon) of Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and (with Julie Anderson) of Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: The History of a Recalcitrant Disease 2. Lung Cancer and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century: Bodies, Tissues, Cells, and the Making of a Rare Disease 3. Lungs in the Operating Theatre, Circa 1900 to 1950 4. Science, Medicine and Politics: Lung Cancer and Smoking, Circa 1945 to 1965 5. Trials and Tribulations: Lung Cancer Treatment, Circa 1950 to 1970 6. More Enthusiasm, Please: Preventing, Screening, Treating, Classifying, Circa 1960 to 1990 7. The Management of Stigma: Lung Cancer and Charity, Circa 1990 to 2000 8. Still Recalcitrant? Some Conclusions