Main description:

In the late nineteenth century, David Paul von Hansemann coined phrases that have remained the basis of descriptive terms concerning the microscopical appearances of tumors ever since, yet his work is rarely mentioned today. This book presents translations of all the relevant German texts and analyses the background and context of Hansemann's theories. It shows that some of Hansemann's ideas may still be relevant to cancer research today.

Contents:

Part I: Background: Family, education and career.-Aspects of philosophy in the culture and science of Germany.-Aspects of biomedical science in the nineteenth century.-Theories of tumours prior to Hansemann.-Hansemann's ideas of cancer: description and analysis.-Critics, reviewers, the forgetting of Hansemann, and what might have been Part II: Translations: On the Asymmetrical Division of Cells in Epithelial Carcinomata and their Biological Importance (1890a).-On pathological mitoses (1891a).-Karyokinesis and Cellular Pathology (1891c).-On the Anaplasia of tumour cells and asymmetric mitosis (1892a).-Studies on the Specificity, the Altruism and the Anaplasia of cells with Special Reference to Tumours (1893c).-Hansemann's other articles and books on tumours and related topics Appendices: Hansemann's early Curriclum vitae.-Supplementary Index Entries to 'The Science of Cancerous Disease from Earliest Times to the Present' (Wolff, 1907).- Published obituaries