The Cancer Problem
The Cancer Problem

Author: Agnes Arnold-Forster

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-01-19

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0192635751

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The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present.

The Suitcase Baby
The Suitcase Baby

Author: Tanya Bretherton

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Published: 2018-01-30

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0733639232

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIB True history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pace of a great crime novel. In the early hours of Saturday morning, 17 November 1923, a suitcase was found washed up on the shore of a small beach in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. What it contained - and why - would prove to be explosive. The murdered baby in the suitcase was one of many dead infants who were turning up in the harbour, on trains and elsewhere. These innocent victims were a devastating symptom of the clash between public morality, private passion and unrelenting poverty in a fast-growing metropolis. Police tracked down Sarah Boyd, the mother of the suitcase baby, and the complex story and subsequent murder trial of Sarah and her friend Jean Olliver became a media sensation. Sociologist Tanya Bretherton masterfully tells the engrossing and moving story of the crime that put Sarah and her baby at the centre of a social tragedy that still resonates through the decades. **Includes an extract from Tanya's latest fascinating and chilling true crime story, The Killing Streets**

The Unofficial Guide to Getting Into Medical School - E-Book
The Unofficial Guide to Getting Into Medical School - E-Book

Author: Bogdan Chiva Giurca

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2024-02-06

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 0443114277

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This book is designed to help you become one of the few applicants to get into a highly competitive medicine degree, based on the insights of over 300 medical students across 32 UK medical schools.Written in a clear and engaging style, the Unofficial Guide offers unique content to help you stand out from the crowd with useful tips and information at every stage of the process. It demystifies what you can expect from the degree, talks you though writing the application, covers what you need to know (and appear to know) for the interview, and provides a full guide to exam preparation.Updated to incorporate recent post-COVID changes to the admission process, and full of real-life examples from those who have succeeded before you, this will be a much-cherished companion for every would-be doctor. - Unique, highly relevant and inspirational content, all based on real-life experiences - Complete approach that focuses on every aspect of getting into medical school - Written by doctors and medical students – full of tips and tricks that work - Improve your application - covers what admission tutors are looking for when making their selection - Blitz the interview – strategies and techniques, the top 120 most commonly encountered questions, plus all the extra-curricular background reading required - Ace your entrance exams – 20-hour preparation strategy - Write a fantastic personal statement - step-by-step support using previous successful examples - Graduate medicine applications and dedicated section for international students - Includes a section dedicated to international students - Content updated to include post-COVID changes to the process - More real-life examples - How to select the best medical school to increase your chances - New diagrams