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  • Record Number: 28341
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): de Tournemire , Jean,
  • Contributor(s): Wallis, Faith, translator
  • Title: Metaphor and Malignancy: The Difficult Case of Cancer [Includes two primary source texts: Jean of Tournemire diagnoses his daughter’s breast cancer and receives divine medical aid and Guillaume Boucher treats a Parisian lady with breast cancer. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
  • Source: Medieval Medicine: A Reader.  Edited by Faith WallisReadings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, 15.  University of Toronto Press, 2010.  Pages 344 - 351.
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  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Boucher, Guillaume, Physician Breast Cancer Jean de Tournemire, Physician Medicine Miracles Physicians
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 14-15
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  • Year of Publication: 2010.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781442601697 (hbk); 9781442601031 (pbk)