Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England - Ravenous Natures - Alanna Skuse - Paperback Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - 2015 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Description

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.