Author: Victoria Sparey

Peterson, Kaara L., Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare’s England

Nov 26, 2010

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by

Victoria Sparey

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews

Kaara L. Peterson, Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare’s England(Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), 217 pp. £55. hb. ISBN 9780754669937 (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare’s England provides an important contribution to understandings of early modern medical knowledge. The value of Peterson’s…