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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.
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.
Acknowledgements
Referencing Conventions
Introduction
1. What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis And Cause
2. Cancer And The Gendered Body
3. 'It Is, Say Some, Of A Ravenous Nature': Zoomorphic Images Of Cancer
4. Cancerous Growth And Malignancy
5. Wolves' Tongues And Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures For Cancer
6. 'Cannot You Use A Loving Violence?': Cancer Surgery
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: |
viii
219 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781137569196 |
| ISBN-10: | 1137569190 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Skuse, Alanna |
| Auflage: | 2015 edition |
| Hersteller: |
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave MacMillan UK |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com |
| Maße: | 216 x 140 x 12 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Alanna Skuse |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 28.10.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,268 kg |
Acknowledgements
Referencing Conventions
Introduction
1. What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis And Cause
2. Cancer And The Gendered Body
3. 'It Is, Say Some, Of A Ravenous Nature': Zoomorphic Images Of Cancer
4. Cancerous Growth And Malignancy
5. Wolves' Tongues And Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures For Cancer
6. 'Cannot You Use A Loving Violence?': Cancer Surgery
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Thema: | Lexika |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: |
viii
219 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781137569196 |
| ISBN-10: | 1137569190 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Skuse, Alanna |
| Auflage: | 2015 edition |
| Hersteller: |
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave MacMillan UK |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com |
| Maße: | 216 x 140 x 12 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Alanna Skuse |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 28.10.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,268 kg |
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