Fictions of disease : representations of bodily disorder in early modern writings
This thesis explores the socio-cultural construction of disease between approximately 1510 and 1620 and pursues a better understanding of political and aesthetic deployments of bodily disorder in the period's writings. It addresses the issue of why the vocabulary of medicine featured so promine...
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University College London (University of London)
1995
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362317 |