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Despite its prominent position in today's medical research, popular culture and everyday life, cancer's history is relatively unwritten. Compared to the other great ‘plagues’ – cholera, tuberculosis or tropical fevers, to name but a scant handful – cancer has few dedicated pages in the general surveys, and its specialists have largely failed to convince the broader community of medical historians – or indeed historians of anything at all – that histories of the disease can tell us fundamental things about the science and practice of medicine, both past and present. Moreover, cancer has a remarkably stable profile over time, at least in terms of its definition, language and terminology – a detail that only makes the disease's absence from historical literature more surprising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain," Part I, 3 vols., edited by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tina Young Choi, Tom Crook, Christopher S. Hamlin. and Barbara Leckie.

The article reviews part II of the book "Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain," edited by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tina Young Choi, Tom Crook, Christopher S. Hamlin, and Barbara Leckie.

The article reviews the book "Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890-1930" by Deborah J. Neill.

A review of the book "Public Health in the British Empire: Intermediaries, Subordinates, and the Practice of Public Health, 1850-1960," edited by Ryan Johnson and Amna Khalid, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Zalma," by Thomas Mullett Ellis.