title: Allegory as historical and theoretical model of scientific medicine: sex and the making of the modern body in Phineas Fletcher's The Purple Island.
authors.affiliation: Department of English, University of North Dakota, USA.
authors.forename: Yvette
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koepke
mesh_terms: D005197:Famous Persons; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D049670:History, 17th Century; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010684:Philosophy / Q000266:history; D019529:Sexuality / Q000266:history*; D012938:Social Perception; D006113:United Kingdom