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Textualizing illness : medicine and culture in New England, 1620-1730 /
'Textualizing Illness' investigates how colonial New England writings represented and contributed to the meaning-endowment of diseases. It explores how the textual configurations of illnesses changed in the wake of the scientific revolution, growing numbers of non-Puritan settlers and Afri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg, Germany :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
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| Colección: | American studies (Munich, Germany) ;
Volume 249. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 'Textualizing Illness' investigates how colonial New England writings represented and contributed to the meaning-endowment of diseases. It explores how the textual configurations of illnesses changed in the wake of the scientific revolution, growing numbers of non-Puritan settlers and African slaves, and increasing contacts with Native Americans. The representations of colonial body perceptions and illness experiences are often hidden in a broad textual archive and thus require "reading across" different texts and authors to analyze the positions and functions of the sick body in both medical |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3825374742 9783825374747 |