Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England Web programming at the Bar and on

at the Bar and on the Bench

this book aims to move debate in both knowledge and writing practices in a new direction

Based on her findings

Thinking specifically about the visual nature of women's sexualized experiences

not only because these issues have preoccupied the human race through the ages

Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England Web programming at the Bar and onMining 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. Peterson assembles a fascinating collection of medical materials to support her discussion of contemporary debates about varieties of uterine pathologies and the implications of these debates for our