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A History of Lung CancerScience, Medicine and Politics: Lung Cancer and Smoking, circa 1945 to 1965

A History of Lung Cancer: Science, Medicine and Politics: Lung Cancer and Smoking, circa 1945 to... [By the 1940s, as I have argued in the previous chapter, surgery of the lungs was turning into routine, not only for tuberculosis but also for lung cancer. Meanwhile there were signs that the status of lung cancer was changing radically. Lung cancer was about to turn from a chest disease, whose significance in public health terms was relatively marginal, into a major cancer, and the only one whose main cause was known. The historian Matthew Hilton writes in his book on Smoking in British Popular Culture that ‘the damage done to health through smoking has increasingly come to dominate the meaning of tobacco’.1 It is important for the argument of this book that, in turn, the meaning of lung cancer has also come to be dominated by its link with smoking. This was a turning point, making lung cancer essentially different from other malignant diseases.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Lung CancerScience, Medicine and Politics: Lung Cancer and Smoking, circa 1945 to 1965

Part of the Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History Book Series
Timmermann, Carsten
Springer Journals — Nov 14, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-54187-4
Pages
64 –92
DOI
10.1057/9781137384232_4
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Abstract

[By the 1940s, as I have argued in the previous chapter, surgery of the lungs was turning into routine, not only for tuberculosis but also for lung cancer. Meanwhile there were signs that the status of lung cancer was changing radically. Lung cancer was about to turn from a chest disease, whose significance in public health terms was relatively marginal, into a major cancer, and the only one whose main cause was known. The historian Matthew Hilton writes in his book on Smoking in British Popular Culture that ‘the damage done to health through smoking has increasingly come to dominate the meaning of tobacco’.1 It is important for the argument of this book that, in turn, the meaning of lung cancer has also come to be dominated by its link with smoking. This was a turning point, making lung cancer essentially different from other malignant diseases.]

Published: Nov 14, 2015

Keywords: Lung Cancer; Medical Research Council; Tobacco Industry; Lung Cancer Case; Lung Cancer Incidence

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