"Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and
Culture" examines an important moment in the long history of the
medical use and abuse of the human body. In early modern Protestant
England, the fragmented corpse was processed, circulated, and
ingested as a valuable drug in a medical economy underpinned by a
brutal judicial system. In a meticulous engagement with an
extensive range of medical, religious, and literary texts, Louise
Noble shows how early modern writers became obsessed with medicinal
cannibalism and its uncanny link to the contested Eucharist
sacrament. In the process, Noble points out startling continuities
between early modern and contemporary medical consumptions of the
body.
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