Book ID: CBB001202252

Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century (2013)

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Kaartinen, Marjo (Author)


Pickering & Chatto


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xii + 181 pp.
Language: English

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. Using a wide range of primary sources, she examines the ways in which knowledge about breast cancer was shared through networks of advice that patients formed with fellow sufferers. By focusing on the women who struggled with the disease as well as the doctors that treated them, much is revealed about early modern attitudes to cancer and how patients experienced -- and were considered to experience -- the cancerous body.

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Review Rajaram, Megha (2015) Review of "Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 177-178). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lerner, Barron H.
Elisa Sevilla
Ana Sevilla
Wu, Y.-C.
Witte, Wilfried
Willis, Martin
Concepts
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Public understanding of medicine
Medicine and culture
Patients
Medicine
Cancer; tumors
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Philadelphia, PA
Ecuador
Japan
Germany
Institutions
Merck & Co.
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