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Author:

Kerwin, William.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

viii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.
Medicine--England--History--16th century.
Medicine--England--History--17th century.
Physicians in literature.
Renaissance--England.
Drama--history--England.
History, 16th Century--England.
History, 17th Century--England.
Medicine in Literature--England.
Physicians--history--England.
Théâtre anglais--16e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Littérature et médecine--Angleterre--Histoire--16e siècle.
Littérature et médecine--Angleterre--Histoire--17e siècle.
Théâtre anglais--17e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Médecine--Angleterre--Histoire--16e siècle.
Médecine--Angleterre--Histoire--17e siècle.
Médecins dans la littérature.
Renaissance--Angleterre.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Massachusetts studies in early modern culture

ISBN:

9781558494824 (cloth : alk. paper)
1558494820 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57004066

LCCN:

2004026484

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)