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100 - How the Body Worked

from Part XI - Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Barbara Traister
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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arteriesbilebirthingbloodboodlettingbraincholergestationhearthumorslactationlivermacrocosmmenstruationmicrocosmnervesone-sex bodyphlegmpurgingsoultemperamentveins
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 777 - 783
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Adelman, Janet. “Making Defect Perfection: Shakespeare and the One-Sex Model.” Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage. Ed. Comensoli, Viviana and Russell, Anne. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1999. 23–52.Google Scholar
Hillman, David, and Mazzio, Carla, eds. The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporality in Early Modern Europe. New York: Routledge, 1997.Google Scholar
Hoeniger, F. David. Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1992.Google Scholar
Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990.Google Scholar
MacLean, Ian. The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Park, Katherine. “Cadden, Laqueur, and the ‘One-Sex Body.’” Medieval Feminist Forum 46.1 (2010): 96–100.Google Scholar
Paster, Gail Kern. The Body Embarrassed: Drama and Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sawday, Jonathan. The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture. London: Routledge, 1995.Google Scholar

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