The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-286807-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 812 g

Reihe: Emotions in history

Different people feel different emotions when they are diagnosed with cancer. Both today and a century ago, fear and hope, shame and disgust, sadness and joy are and were the emotions experienced by many cancer patients and their loved ones. But these emotions do not just have significance for the people who feel them. They have also exerted a surprisingly profound influence on how hospitals and laboratories dealt with cancer, how early detection campaigns portrayed
it, and how doctors talked about it with their patients. Bettina Hitzer details the history of cancer and emotions in twentieth-century Germany and thus follows the cancer-associated transformations of emotional regimes, emotional politics, and emotional experiences through five different political
systems. In doing so, the study underscores that political caesuras resonate in the immediate corporeality of the history of emotions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hitzer, Bettina

Bresnahan, Adam

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bresnahan, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Bettina Hitzer is Heisenberg Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the Technical University Dresden as well as Privatdozentin at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2014-2020, she was Leader of the Minerva Research Group 'Emotions and Illness: Histories of an Intricate Relation' at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. She was awarded the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her most
recent book, Krebs fühlen (2020) and in 2016 the Walter-de-Gruyter Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She is the author or (co-)editor of ten books, most recently Feeling Disease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness (with Rob Boddice; forthcoming) and In unsere Mitte genommen: Adoption
im 20. Jahrhundert (with Benedikt Stuchtey; forthcoming). Currently, she is working on a research project about the post-1945 history of adoption in East and West Germany.