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  1. Constructions of cancer in early modern England
    ravenous natures
    Autor*in: Skuse, Alanna
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    "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... mehr

    Standort:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    Signatur:
    1 A 968407
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV)

    Standort:
    Zentrale Hochschulbibliothek Lübeck
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    Inn G5 550
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    Standort:
    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Signatur:
    66.4096
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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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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781137569196; 9781137487520
    RVK Klassifikation: HI 1161 ; HK 1091
    Schriftenreihe: Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
    Schlagworte: Cancer; Oncology; Cancer
    Umfang: VIII, 219 S., Ill.
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    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.