Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage

Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage / edited by Stephanie Moss and Kaara L. Peterson.

Other author/creator	Moss, Stephanie.
Other author/creator	Peterson, Kaara L.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub.,
Description	xvii, 218 p. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge --Medicine. English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 --History and criticism. Medicine in literature. Literature and medicine--England --History --16th century. Literature and medicine--England --History --17th century. English drama--17th century --History and criticism. Physicians in literature. Diseases in literature.

Series	Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Contents	Performing arts : hysterical disease, exorcism, and Shakespeare's theater / Kaara L. Peterson -- No faith in physic : masquerades of medicine onstage and off / Tanya Pollard -- Note her a little farther : doctors and healers in the drama of Shakespeare / Barbara Howard Traister -- Hot blood : estranging Mediterranean bodies in early modern medical and dramatic texts / Carol Thomas Neely -- Some love that drew him oft from home : syphilis and international commerce in the comedy of errors / Jonathan Gil Harris -- Elizabethan racial medical psychology, popular drama, and the social programming of the late-Tudor Black : sketching an exploratory postcolonial hypothesis / Imtiaz Habib -- Infectious rape, therapeutic revenge : bloodletting and the health of Rome's body / Catherine Belling -- The fille vièrge as pharmakon : the therapeutic value of Desdemona's corpse / Louise Noble -- Transformation and degeneration : the paracelsan/galenic body in Othello / Stephanie Moss -- Cankers in Romeo and Juliet : sixteenth-century medicine at a figural/literal cusp / Lynette Hunter.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-204) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2003025555
ISBN	0754637913 (alk. paper)

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