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The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine 9780674735668

Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early mod

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Medicine, Religion, and the Body [1 ed.] 9789047444008, 9789004179707

This book develops an interdiscplinary as well as cross cultural and historical analyses of the relationship between med

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Tools and the Organism : Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine 9780226828787, 9780226828770

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Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine 9780226828787

The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of h

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The Theology of Medicine and the Unique Design of the Human Body 1527550966, 9781527550964

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The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine 9789004356771, 9004356770

The Comparable Body explores how analogy and metaphor illuminate and shape conceptions about the human body and disease,

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The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool English Texts and Studies): 72 1786940523, 9781786940520

Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex

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Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/body Connection : The Roots of Complementary Medicine 9780877856085, 9780877853305

Complementary and alternative healing encompass a wide range of practices that share a common ground: the belief that ou

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We Lived for the Body: Natural Medicine and Public Health in Imperial Germany 9781501758096

Nature was central to the Wilhelmine German experience. Medical cosmologies and reform-initiatives were a key to consume

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Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine 9781101884973, 9780804179980

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