"On Medical Matters”: Doctors and disease in Shakespeare’s work
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Medical practices, Treatments and healthcare professionals in the 16th and 17th centuries, Domestic medicine, Bipolar disorder, Neurosis, PsychopathologiesAbstract
This article describes the evolution of medicine in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, illustrating with examples from some of Shakespeare’s plays the constant presence both of the studies then being developed and of practices of diagnosis and treatment at the time of the playwright’s life. As such subject is being discussed here, this text shows what a forerunner Shakespeare was in his critical view of medical practices, being at various moments a precursor of the demonstration of symptoms which centuries later would become the object of study by doctors and researchers and would result in the discovery of their etiology and in the denomination of physical and mental diseases, especially psychopathologies. This article ends with two case studies based on the analysis of the plays “Timon of Athens” and “King Lear”.
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