Indice: Introduction: Bones. 1. Medicine lost in a labyrinth and the defence of defiant healing 2. Seeing through the body: nature, disease and what the true physician must know 3. The alchemy of things in the making: medicines as poisons and poisons as medicines 4. Pursuing the arts where God has placed them: on the road for the sake of learning 5. I am ashamed of medicine: love, labour and the Spirit of Christ in the transformation of the secular world 6. Invisible beings and invisible diseases: magic and insanity in an age of faith 7. Inventing Paracelsus: the use and abuse of a Renaissance life. References. Select bibliography. Acknowledgements. Photo acknowledgements. Index
