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A History of Prostate Cancer

Part of the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56595-2

ISBN: 978-1-4039-8803-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Aug 1, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction: The Prostate, Cancer, and the Making of Modern Medicine

Valier, Helen K.

Pages: 1 –14

[How can the very old come to define the very new? The ailments that make up a collection of diseases labelled ‘cancer’ are described in ancient manuscripts, depicted in millennia of human artifice and exposed within prehistoric human remains. As a species we have always lived with malignant...
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Chapter 2The Problematic Prehistory of Prostate Cancer

Valier, Helen K.

Pages: 15 –42

[In the early summer of 1817, the Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons, William Lawrence, presented several cases of ‘Fungus Haematodes’ (including some reported by his colleague, George Langstaff, the attending surgeon for St Giles’ Cripplegate Workhouse). As part of...
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Chapter 3Surgery and Specialization

Valier, Helen K.

Pages: 43 –67

[The white heat of the Paris clinics helped in many ways to create a new ‘modern’ style of medicine: one that blended medical and surgical ideas, was research and teaching intensive, and which was, in other words, an early version of the phenomenon that we would now describe as ‘academic...
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Chapter 4Sex, Hormones, and Quantification

Valier, Helen K.

Pages: 69 –95

[The revival of microscopy, the development of cell theory, and the emergence of specialization all drastically reshaped medicine during the latter nineteenth century, but so too did the development of another phenomenon I have not yet discussed: the science of physiology. Once again the great...
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Chapter 5Cancer and Clinical Trials

Valier, Helen K.

Pages: 97 –121

[Experiments, as Claude Bernard had shown, manipulate materials and processes in the natural world to determine underlying cause-and-effect relationships. To do this, experimenters seek to change certain known conditions and control for others, an inductive and powerful approach to problem...
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Chapter 6Screening, Patients, and the Politics of Prevention

Valier, Helen K.

Pages: 123 –162

[The year 1979 was a good one for Gerald Murphy’s National Prostatic Cancer Project (NPCP) at Roswell Park. In an article titled Purification of a Human Prostate Specific Antigen, Murphy’s team claimed to have purified and identified a new immunological marker linked to prostate cancer,3 but it...
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Chapter 7Radiotherapy and Evidence in an Age of High Technology

Valier, Helen K.

Pages: 163 –191

[Some remarkable discoveries were made about the fundamental nature of the universe at the turn of the nineteenth century. In 1895, the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, working at the University of Würzburg, observed a strange fluorescence as he tinkered with cathode ray tubes, a...
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Chapter 8Conclusions: Medicine, Masculinity, and the Problems of the Prostate

Valier, Helen K.

Pages: 193 –208

[The twentieth century decline in the incidence and prevalence of infectious disease has long been recognized by historians as coinciding with a renewed biomedical focus on the ‘disease management’ of the chronically ill. During the 1960s and 1970s the use of ‘risk factors’—clinical indicators,...

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