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  title info:
    title: Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
    sub title: Ravenous Natures
  name:
    name part: Skuse, Alanna
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (VIII, 219 pages 15 illustrations)
  abstract: 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.
  note: by Alanna Skuse.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Open Access
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    topic: British and Irish Literature
  subject:
    topic: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
  subject:
    topic: European History
  subject:
    topic: European Literature
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Modern History
  subject:
    topic: British literature
  subject:
    topic: European literature
  subject:
    topic: History, Modern
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  classification: 809
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine
  identifier: 9781137487537
  identifier: https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137487537
  access condition: Open Access
  record info:
    record creation date: 160103
    record change date: 20210728135920.0
    record identifier: in00003992846