Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England
Julie OrlemanskiIn the period just prior to medicine's modernity, England saw a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Julie Orlemanski's Symptomatic Subjects shows how late medieval English writers drew on the discourse of medicine to narrate anew the crossings—and the conflicts—between physiology and personhood.
In the period just prior to medicine's modernity, England saw a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Julie Orlemanski's Symptomatic Subjects shows how late medieval English writers drew on the discourse of medicine to narrate anew the crossings—and the conflicts—between physiology and personhood.
Rok:
2019
Wydawnictwo:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Język:
english
Strony:
344
ISBN 10:
0812296087
ISBN 13:
9780812296082
Plik:
PDF, 6.05 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2019