Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 ‘One of the Most Grievous and Rebellious Diseases’: Defining, Diagnosing and the Causes of Cancer
- 2 ‘But Sad Resources’: Treating Cancer in the Eighteenth Century
- 3 Women's Agency and Role in Choice of Treatment
- 4 ‘So Frightful to the Very Imagination’: Pain, Emotions and Cancer in the Breast
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
CONTENTS
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 ‘One of the Most Grievous and Rebellious Diseases’: Defining, Diagnosing and the Causes of Cancer
- 2 ‘But Sad Resources’: Treating Cancer in the Eighteenth Century
- 3 Women's Agency and Role in Choice of Treatment
- 4 ‘So Frightful to the Very Imagination’: Pain, Emotions and Cancer in the Breast
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century , pp. v - viPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014