Umfang:
VIII, 219 S.
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Ill.
ISBN:
9781137569196
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9781137487520
Serie:
Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
Inhalt:
"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"--
Inhalt:
"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"--
Anmerkung:
Machine generated contents note:List Of Illustrations -- 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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781137487537
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781137487544
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Skuse, Alanna, 1986 - Constructions of cancer in early modern England Basingstoke : palgrave macmillan, 2015 ISBN 9781137487537
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781137487544
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
England
;
Onkologie
;
Geschichte 1580-1720
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