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	PPN:	869962507
	Title:	Constructions of cancer in early modern England : ravenous natures / Alanna Skuse, fellow at the Folger Skakespeare Library, Washington DC
	Persons:	Skuse, Alanna 1986- [VerfasserIn]
	Published:	Basingstoke ; New York : palgrave macmillan, [2015]
	Languages:	English
	Copyright-Datum:	© 2015
	Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (viii, 219 Seiten) : Illustrationen
	Note:	Open Access Nutzungsrecht: Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web English
	Bibliogr. context:	Erscheint auch als: Constructions of cancer in early modern England: ravenous natures / Skuse, Alanna 1986-. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-56919-6
	ISBN:	978-1-137-48753-7 978-1-137-48754-4 Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-137-56919-6 (Printausgabe), 978-1-137-48752-0 (Printausgabe)
	Subject headings:	England / Onkologie / Geschichte 1580-1720 / History of medicine
	Classification:	Dewey Decimal Classification: [23] 362.1969940094 Basisklassifikation: 44.81 (Onkologie) RVK: HI 1161: H Anglistik. Amerikanistik / HG-HO Englische Literatur / HI Renaissance, Elisabethanische Zeit (1500-1640) / HI 1130-HI 4000 Literaturgeschichte / HI 1160-HI 1161 Stoff- und Motivgeschichte (mit Emblematik) / Einzelne Stoffe, Motive und Embleme HK 1091: H Anglistik. Amerikanistik / HG-HO Englische Literatur / HK 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (1640-1770) / HK 1070-HK 4020 Literaturgeschichte / HK 1090-HK 1091 Stoff- und Motivgeschichte / Einzelne Stoffe und Motive bicssc: MBX
	Abstract:	The 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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