David Paul von Hansemann: Contributions to Oncology

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