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020 $a9781137569196;9781137487537
041 0 $aEnglish
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100 1 $aSkuse, Alanna$4auth
245 10 $aChapter 1 What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis and Cause : Ravenous Natures
260 $aBasingstoke$bSpringer Nature$c2015
300 $a1 electronic resource (219 p.)
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520 $aThe study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period’s medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to accommodate, seemingly without friction, the notion that cancer was a disease with humoral origins alongside the conviction that the malady was in some sense ontologically independent. Discussions of why cancer spread rapidly through the body, and was difficult, if not impossible, to cure, prompted various medical explanations at the same time that physicians and surgeons joined with non-medical authors in describing the disease as acting in a way that was ‘malignant’ in the fullest sense, purposely ‘fierce’, ‘rebellious’ and intractable.3 Theories seeking to explain why cancer appeared most often in the female breast similarly joined culturally mediated anatomical and humoral theory with recognition of the peculiarities of women’s social, domestic and emotional life-cycles. Moreover, as a morbid disease, cancer generated eclectic and sometimes extreme medical responses, the mixed results of which would prompt many questions over the proper extent of pharmaceutical or surgical intervention.
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653 $acancer
653 $aearly modernity
653 $aearly modern cancer
653 $aengland
653 $aearly modern medical thought
773 10 $0OAPEN Library ID: 1000138$tConstructions of Cancer in Early Modern England$7nnaa
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