Rhetoric and medicine in early modern Europe
Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe. Although the range of theoretical a...
| Други автори: | Pender, Stephen. (Editor), Struever, Nancy S. (Editor) |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
℗♭2012.
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| Серия: |
Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
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Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe. |
Съдържание:
- Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements and Permissions; Introduction: Reading Physicians; 1 Between Medicine and Rhetoric; 2 The Promotion of Bath Waters by Physicians in the Renaissance; 3 The Anatomical Web: Literary Dissection from Castiglione to Cromwell; 4 Medical Humanism, Rhetoric, and Anatomy at Padua, circa 1540; 5 Political Pathology; 6 Responses to Vulnerability: Medicine, Politics and the Body in Descartes and Spinoza; 7 The Many Rhetorical Personae of an Early Modern Physician: Girolamo Cardano on Truth and Persuasion.
- 8 You've Got to Have Soul: Understanding the Passions in Early Modern Culture9 "The Babel Event": Language, Rhetoric, and Burton's Infinite Symptom; 10 Medicine's Political Rhetoric: The Case of Bertini's La medicina difesa; Afterword: The Place of Medicine in a General Account of Early Modern Intellectual History; Bibliography; Index.