Chapter 1 What Was Cancer? Definition, Diagnosis and Cause : Ravenous Natures

The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period's medical theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern medical thought, which managed to accommodate, seemingly without friction, the notion that cancer was a disease...

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Main Author: Skuse, Alanna (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Basingstoke Springer Nature 2015
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