David Paul von Hansemann: Contributions to Oncology Context, Comments and Translations /

• Main Authors: Bignold, Leon P. (Author), Coghlan, Brian L. D. (Author), Jersmann, Hubertus P. A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Molecular Medicine.

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...

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.