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Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England = Ravenous Natures /

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Title/Author:	Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England/ by Alanna Skuse.
Reminder of title:	Ravenous Natures /
Author:	Skuse, Alanna.
Description:	VIII, 219 p. 15 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137487537
ISBN:	9781137487537

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England = Ravenous Natures /
Skuse, Alanna.

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern EnglandRavenous Natures /[electronic resource] :by Alanna Skuse. - 1st ed. 2015. - VIII, 219 p. 15 illus.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6435. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,.

Open Access

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.

ISBN: 9781137487537

Standard No.: 10.1057/9781137487537doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

685063
Literature, Modern.

LC Class. No.: PN715-749

Dewey Class. No.: 809

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