Medicine and the Five Senses

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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Galen at the bedside: the methods of a medical detective Vivian Nutton 2. Sensory perception and its metaphors in the time of Richard of Fournival Elizabeth Sears 3. The manifest and the hidden in the Renaissance clinic Jerome Bylebyl 4. In bad odour: smell and its significance in medicine from antiquity to the seventeenth century Richard Palmer 5. Seeing and believing: contrasting attitudes towards observational anatomy among French Galenists in the first half of the seventeenth century Laurence Brockliss 6. 'The mark of truth': looking and learning in some anatomical illustrations from the Renaissance and eighteenth century Martin Kemp 7. The art and science of seeing in medicine: physiognomy 1780-1820 Ludmilla Jordanova 8. The introduction of percussion and stethoscopy to early nineteenth-century Edinburgh Malcolm Nicolson 9. Educating the senses: students, teachers and medical rhetoric in eighteenth-century London Susan C. Lawrence 10. The rise of physical examination Roy Porter 11. Touch, sexuality and disease Sander Gilman 12. Sense and sensibility in late nineteenth-century surgery in America Gert Brieger 13. Training the senses, training the mind Merriley Borell 14. Technology and the use of the senses in twentieth-century medicine Stanley J. Reiser Notes Index.

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