Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England

Alanna Skuse is a scholar of early modern literature and history, who has lectured at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter, UK. She has previously published on early modern treatments for cancer and on the uses of 'canker' in Shakespeare's Sonnets.

• List Of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsReferencing ConventionsIntroduction1. What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis And Cause2. Cancer And The Gendered Body3. 'It Is, Say Some, Of A Ravenous Nature': Zoomorphic Images Of Cancer4. Cancerous Growth And Malignancy5. Wolves' Tongues And Mercury: Pharmaceutical Cures For Cancer6. 'Cannot You Use A Loving Violence?': Cancer SurgeryConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex