David Paul von Hansemann: Contributions to Oncology Context, Comments and Translations /
In 1890, just a few years after the discovery of the chromosomes, David Paul Hansemann, a pathologist-in-training with the famous Rudolph Virchow in Berlin, produced a theory of the pathogenesis of cancer involving the key current concept: that the first change which occurs in cancer is an alteratio...
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| Language: | English |
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Basel :
Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7769-4 |
Table of Contents:
- Background
- Family, education and career
- Aspects of philosophy in the culture and science of Germany in the nineteenth century
- Aspects of biomedical science in the nineteenth century
- Theories of tumours prior to Hansemann
- Hansemann’s ideas of the nature of cancer: description and analysis
- Critics, reviewers, the forgetting of Hansemann, and what might have been
- Translations
- On the asymmetrical division of cells in epithelial carcinomata and their biological importance
- On pathological mitoses
- Karyokinesis and “Cellular Pathology”
- On the anaplasia of tumour cells and asymmetric mitosis
- “Studies on the Specificity, the Altruism and the Anaplasia of cells with Special Reference to Tumours”
- Hansemann’s other articles and books on tumours and related topics.