… between fashion and illness. Yet the ‘openness’ of these theories is to be set against the existence of secret medical networks 7 bent on exploiting the gullibility of too many patients, in behind-the-scenes transactions, by promoting a …
… of young women in early eighteenth-century Britain. The attention that he ultimately gives both to his homosocial networks and his literary quarrels might be intended, in part, to remedy such associations with femininity. The same …