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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alanna SkusePublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2015 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 2.921kg ISBN: 9781137569196ISBN 10: 1137569190 Pages: 219 Publication Date: 28 October 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationAlanna Skuse is a scholar of early modern literature and history, who has lectured at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter, UK. She has previously published on early modern treatments for cancer and on the uses of 'canker' in Shakespeare's Sonnets. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |