Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England Ravenous Natures /

This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern En...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Skuse, Alanna (مؤلف)
مؤلف مشترك: SpringerLink (Online service)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
سلاسل:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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