Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England [electronic resource] : Ravenous Natures

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Tác giả: Alanna Skuse

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-1137487537

Ký hiệu phân loại: 809 History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures

Thông tin xuất bản: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Mô tả vật lý: VIII, 219 p. 15 illus. , online resource.

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 170019

This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer - as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body - remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.
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