Jonathan Gil Harris examines the origins of modern discourses of
social pathology in Elizabethan and Jacobean medical and political
writing. Plays, pamphlets and political treatises of this period
display an increasingly xenophobic tendency to attribute England's
ills to 'foreign bodies' such as Jews, Catholics and witches, as
well as treat their allegedly 'poisonous' features for the health
of the body politic. Harris argues that this tendency resonates
with two of the distinctive paradigms of Paracelsus' pharmacy which
also includes the notion that poison has a medicinal power. The
emergence of these paradigms in early modern English political
thought signals a decisive shift from Galenic humoral tradition
towards twentieth-century politico-medical discourses of
'infection' and 'containment', which, like their early modern
predecessors, make mysterious the domestic origins of social
conflict and the operations of political authority.
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