Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

Nancy S. Struever

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Contents: Introduction: reading physicians, Stephen Pender Between medicine and rhetoric, Stephen Pender The promotion of Bath Waters by physicians in the Renaissance, Jean Dietz Moss The anatomical web: literary dissection from Castiglione to Cromwell, Richard Sugg Medical humanism, rhetoric, and anatomy at Padua, circa 1540, Andrea Carlino Political pathology, Daniel M. Gross Responses to vulnerability: medicine, politics, and the body in Descartes and Spinoza, Amy Schmitter The many rhetorical personae of an early modern physician: Girolamo Cardano on truth and persuasion, Guido Giglioni You've got to have soul: understanding the passions in early modern culture, Julie R. Solomon 'The Babel event': language, rhetoric, and Burton's infinite symptom, Grant Williams Medicine's political rhetoric: the case of Bertini's La medicina difesa, Nancy S. Struever Afterword: the place of medicine in a general account of early modern intellectual history, Nancy S. Struever Bibliography Index.

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