[Cutaneous melanoma - 'black death' of modern times? Traces in contemporary literature]

Autor:	F A, Bahmer, J A, Bahmer
Jazyk:	němčina
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Skin Neoplasms Literature Medicine in Literature Germany Humans History 20th Century History 21st Century Melanoma United States
Zdroj:	Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete. 64(11)
ISSN:	1432-1173
Popis:	Cutaneous melanoma, sometimes labeled as "black skin cancer", is increasing in frequency and becoming a more common literary motive. In US literature, Sylvia Plath and Charles Bukowski depicted melanoma more than 50 years ago, later Stephen King and Thomas C. Boyle. In German literature, Charlotte Roche shortly mentioned this tumor. Jörg Pönnighaus, both poet and dermatologist, intensively deals in his poems with the effects melanoma has on patients and doctors alike. Melanoma definitely is not the "Black Death" of modern times. However, the perception of this tumor as extremely malignant and as life-threatening makes melanoma a metaphor of the deadly danger of cancer.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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