Medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature and culture / Louise Noble.

  • Noble, Louise Christine.
Date:
2011
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Publication/Creation

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical description

xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: the pharmacological corpse: the practice and rhetoric of bodily consumptions -- The mummy cure: fresh unspotted cadavers -- Medicine, cannibalism and revenge justice: Titus Andronicus -- Flesh economies in foreign worlds: The unfortunate traveller and the sea voyage -- Divine matter and the cannibal dilemma: the Faerie queene and devotions upon emergent occasions -- The fille vièrge as pharmakon: Othello and the anniversaries -- Epilogue. Trafficking the human body: late modern cannibalism.

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    History of Medicine
    BVBA.41.AA5-6
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ISBN

  • 9780230110274
  • 0230110274