Beyond the body : the boundaries of medicine and English renaissance drama / William Kerwin.

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2005], ©2005.

viii, 290 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Narratives in medicine -- Drug cultures : materia medica and new men -- Medea's traces : women practitioners in history and drama -- "Give me a look, give me a face" : surgeons, satirists and early modern inwardness -- From mountebanks to virtuosi : professing physicians and medical anti-theatricality -- Beyond body and soul : twelfth night and early modern medicine.