Jonathan Gil Harris, Harris Jonathan Gil

Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic

Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines attitudes to the body, disease and society in Tudor and early Stuart England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780521594059
• ISBN-10: 0521594057
• Artikelnr.: 23804365

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on the text
1. Introduction: functionalist organicism and the origins of social pathology
Part I. Pathologizing the Body Politic: 2. 'Enter at the least pore': early modern medicine and bodily infiltration
3. 'Ev'ry poison good for some use': the poisonous political pharmacy and its discontents
Part II. Handy-Dandy, Which is the Justice, Which is the Thief?: 4. Public enemas: the disjunctions of the excremental Jewish pharmakon
5. 'To stop her mouth with Truth's authority': the poisonous tongue of the witch and the word of God
Conclusion: the persistence of the pathological body politic
Notes
Bibliography
Index.