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Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Marjo Kaartinen Klappentext Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer! testing new medicines and radically improving operating techniques. In this study! the first of its kind! Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 ‘One of the Most Grievous and Rebellious Diseases’: Defining, Diagnosing and the Causes of Cancer; Chapter 2 ‘But Sad Resources’: Treating Cancer in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 3 Women’s Agency and Role in Choice of Treatment; Chapter 4 ‘So Frightful to the Very Imagination’: Pain, Emotions and Cancer in the Breast; epilogue Epilogue;

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Authors Marjo Kaartinen
Publisher Pickering and Chatto (publishers) Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.05.2013
 
EAN 9781848933644
ISBN 978-1-84893-364-4
Dimensions 165 mm x 245 mm x 25 mm
Series Studies for the International Society for Cultural History
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History
Non-fiction book

History, HISTORY / General, MEDICAL / History

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