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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's his

This investigation contributes to the existing scholarship on women and medicine in early modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of female pati

This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters