Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to
understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically
improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its
kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and
their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century. Using
a wide range of primary sources, she examines the ways in which
knowledge about breast cancer was shared through networks of advice
that patients formed with fellow sufferers. By focusing on the
women who struggled with the disease as well as the doctors that
treated them, much is revealed about early modern attitudes to
cancer and how patients experienced - and were considered to
experience - the cancerous body.
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