Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England

1. Introduction
Alanna Skuse

2. What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis and Cause
Alanna Skuse

3. Cancer and the Gendered Body
Alanna Skuse

4. ‘It Is, Say Some, of a Ravenous Nature’: Zoomorphic Images of Cancer
Alanna Skuse

5. Cancerous Growth and Malignancy
Alanna Skuse

6. Wolves’ Tongues and Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures for Cancer
Alanna Skuse

7. ‘Cannot You Use a Loving Violence?’: Cancer Surgery
Alanna Skuse

8. Conclusion: ‘Death Is Only Their Desire’
Alanna Skuse

Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, History of Science, Modern History, European Literature, European History