Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England [[electronic resource] ] : Ravenous Natures / / by Alanna Skuse

• Autore: Skuse Alanna
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2015.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 362.1969940094
• Soggetto topico: European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600; European literature; Science - History; History, Modern; Europe - History; Early Modern and Renaissance Literature; European Literature; History of Science; Modern History; European History
• Classificazione: HIS010000LIT000000LIT004120LIT004130
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Inlcudes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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 andMalignancy -- 5 Wolves' Tongues and Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures for Cancer -- 6 'Cannot You Use a Loving Violence?': Cancer Surgery -- Conclusion: 'Death Is Only Their Desire' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
• ISBN: 1-137-48752-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910137185503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, . 2634-6443