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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Main Author: Healy, Margaret Jane
Published: University College London (University of London) 1995
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362317

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