Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Moss, Stephanie, Peterson, Kaara L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
Series:	Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Subjects:	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. History of Medicine > Europe. History, 16th Century > Europe. History, 17th Century > Europe. Medicine in Literature > Europe.

Table of 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.