Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index.
Contents
Narratives in medicine Drug cultures : materia medica and new men Medea's traces : women practitioners in history and drama "Give me a look, give me a face" : surgeons, satirists and early modern inwardness From mountebanks to virtuosi : professing physicians and medical antitheatricality Beyond body and soul : Twelfth night and early modern medicine.