The clock and the mirror : Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine / Nancy G. Siraisi.
Pubblicazione:
Princeton : Princeton university press, c1997.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 361 p. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface and acknowledgments. Note to the reader. Abbreviations. Pt. 1. Cardano's medical world: 1. Introduction 2. Practitioner and patients. Pt. 2. Theory and practice: 3. Argument and experience 4. Time, body, food: the parameters of health. Pt. 3. The old and the new: 5. The uses of anatomy 6. The new Hippocrates. Pt. 4. Medical wonders: 7. The hidden and the marvelous 8. The medicine of dreams. Pt. 5. Medical narratives: 9. Historia, narrative, and medicine 10. The physician as patient. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index