Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
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...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-333122025-01-23T02:12:45Z Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England Skuse, Alanna cancer early modernity early modern cancer england early modern medical thought Arsenic Breast cancer Canker Humorism Medicine Uterus thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T14:19:55Z 2015 book 604171 OCN: 936036151 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32826 9781137569196;9781137487537 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33312 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32826/1/604171.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32826/1/604171.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32826/1/604171.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32826/1/604171.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1057/9781137487537 10.1057/9781137487537 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a Chapter Conclusion: Death Is Only Their Desire Chapter 2 Cancer and the Gendered Body Chapter Referencing Conventions Chapter 3 ˜It Is, Say Some, of a Ravenous Nature : Zoomorphic Images of Cancer Chapter 4 Cancerous Growth and Malignancy Chapter 1 What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis and Cause Chapter Introduction Chapter 5 Wolves Tongues and Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures for Cancer Chapter Bibliography Chapter Acknowledgements Chapter 6 Cannot You Use a Loving Violence?: Cancer Surgery Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9781137569196;9781137487537 Wellcome Palgrave Macmillan 219 Basingstoke 093090 open access |
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| title | Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England |
| title_full | Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England |
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