Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage / edited by Stephanie Moss and Kaara L. Peterson.
| Other author | Moss, Stephanie. |
| Other author | Peterson, Kaara L. |
| Format | Electronic |
| 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 |
| Subjects |
| 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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