Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875-1915

by Alan I. Marcus

An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875-1915, Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful investigation of the first public crusade to determine the cause of cancer. The search for cancer's cause during the heady era of bacteriology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817319794
• ISBN13: 9780817319793
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 20 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary