Author Information: Patrick J Fitzgerald is visitng Professor of Pathology at Cornell University Medical College.

From the author's Introduction: 'What I hope to do in this book is to outline historically the development of concepts concerning the process of carcinogenesis, including the agents believed to have caused cancer in the past. Prominent ideas about the subject held by physicians, biologists, scientists or other individuals are discussed...'

Contents: Part One - The Lump and Ulcer Period * Part Two - The Cell - The Renaissance of Oncology * Part Three - Recognition of the Varieties of Cancer and Carcinogens * Part Four - DNA Molecular Biology and the Gene