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August 2005, Vol 95, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1312-1321
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.046458

PUBLIC HEALTH THEN AND NOW

Gender and Cancer in Britain, 1860–1910: The Emergence of Cancer as a Public Health Concern

Ornella Moscucci, DPhil, BSc

Ornella Moscucci is with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Ornella Moscucci, DPhil, BSc, Centre for History in Public Health, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK (e-mail: ornella.moscucci{at}lshtm.ac.uk).

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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