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A rich and pioneering study. . . . William Kerwin takes as his subject the competing social narratives that shape the medical culture of early modern England. He draws on new primary documents as well as the history of medicine and anthropology and places them in play with English drama from Lyly and Daniel to Webster and Massinger. The conflicts he uncovers challenge recent tendencies to totalize medical knowledge of the period and show how drama is particularly adept at portraying medical thoughts and practices.--Arthur F. Kinney, author of Shakespeare's Webs This study combines a borad understanding of medical history with a close analysis of a number of primary narrative accounts of early modern medical encounters. . . . Kerwin emphasizes the tenuous and dynamic nature of the relationship between the medical and nonmedical as it played out in the culture and expecially on the stages of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.--Choice

A rich and pioneering study.... William Kerwin takes as his subject the competing social narratives that shape the medical culture of early modern England. He draws on new primary documents as well as the history of medicine and anthropology and places them in play with English drama from Lyly and Daniel to Webster and Massinger. The conflicts he uncovers challenge recent tendencies to totalize medical knowledge of the period and show how drama is particularly adept at portraying medical thoughts and practices.

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William Kerwin is assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

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