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Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England

Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England

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Series: Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1138272124
ISBN13: 9781138272125
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 26 2016
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early modern England's significant and sustained interest in the hysterical diseases of women. Kaara L. Peterson assembles a fascinating collection of medical materials to support her discussion of contemporary debates about varieties of uterine pathologies and the implications of these debates for our understanding of drama's representation of hysterica passio cases in particular, among other hysterical maladies.

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