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Wombs, Worms and Wolves: Constructing Cancer in Early Modern England
This essay examines medical and popular attitudes to cancer in the early modern period, c.1580–1720. Cancer, it is argued, was understood as a cruel and usually incurable disease, diagnosable by a well-defined set of symptoms understood to correspond to its etymological root, karkinos (the crab). It...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4211596/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25352720 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hku039 |