Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología

Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol | eISSN 2011-4273 | ISSN 1900-5407

Social representations and cancer metaphors during the XVII and XVIII centuries: an anthology of common places

No. 6 (2008-01-01)
  • Hernando Salcedo Fidalgo
https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda6.2008.10

Abstract

This paper presents a primary sources analytic description –France and Belgium Visitation Sister’s spiritual biographies on the xvii and xviii centuries– and secondary sources –text books an dictionaries– which make reference to profane and Illustrated discourses about “breast cancer disease”. The contemporary to this centuries Illustrated discourses and the contents of biographies corpus are analized, bringing both out the different social representations and metaphors probably in force today.

Keywords: cancer, social representations, metaphors, Middle Age, belief