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Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England - Ravenous Natures (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
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Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England - Ravenous Natures (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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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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