Constructions of cancer in early modern england: ravenous natures
Auteur :
Skuse, Alanna
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781137487520
Date de publication :
28 oct. 2015
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.