Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England by Kaara L. Peterson

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

Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity

Kaara L. Peterson

230 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary challenging informative medium-paced
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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. ...

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