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99 - Healing and Healers

from Part XI - Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Richelle Munkhoff
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 771 - 777
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Barroll, Leeds. Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare’s Theater: The Stuart Years. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991.Google Scholar
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Evenden, Doreen. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
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Kerwin, William. Beyond the Body: The Boundaries of Medicine and English Renaissance Drama. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2005.Google Scholar
Laroche, Rebecca. Medical Authority and Englishwomen’s Herbal Texts, 1550–1650. Burlington: Ashgate, 2009.Google Scholar
Leong, Elaine. “Making Medicines in the Early Modern Household.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82.1 (2008): 145–68.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Moss, Stephanie, and Peterson, Kaara L.. Disease, Diagnosis and Cure on the Early Modern Stage. Burlington: Ashgate, 2004.Google Scholar
Munkhoff, Richelle. “Searchers of the Dead: Authority, Marginality, and the Interpretation of Plague in England, 1574–1665.” Gender and History 11.1 (1999): 1–29.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pelling, Margaret. The Common Lot: Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England. New York: Longman, 1998.Google Scholar
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