Alanna Skuse

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Alanna Skuse is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading. She has published two academic books: Cultural Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England and Selfhood and the Surgically Altered Body in Early Modern England.

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Books by Alanna Skuse

The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack

How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

By Alanna Skuse

**Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine... and how not to die in the Renaissance**

'An entertaining history of medicine… Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times

'A richly r...

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