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

  • Kerwin, William.
Date:
[2005], ©2005
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2005], ©2005.

Physical description

viii, 290 pages ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

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    History of Medicine
    CUT.41.AA5-6
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  • 1558494820