Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781848933644
Subjects: Breast, cancer; Medicine and psychology; Cancer, patients
Description: Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically improving operating techniques. In this study, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and their families to the disease in the long 18th century.