| Descript |
1 online resource (xix, 335 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-335). |
| Contents |
Bottoms up! The fine arts and flagellation -- Robert Musil : what price homosexual sadism? -- Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa : murder, madrigals and masochism -- The sticky end of Frantisek Koczwara, composer of The Battle of Prague -- Weighing the heart agaist the feather of truth -- Can the leper change his spots? The iconography of leprosy -- The iconography of Fanny Hill : how to illustrate a dirty book -- Johnson and Boswell : "Vile melancholy" and "The hypochondriack" -- Margery Kempe : hysteria and mysticism reconciled -- All the colours of the Rimbaud -- Reuben's mandrakes : inferitliy in the Bible -- The plague at Granada, 1348-49 : Ibn al-Khatib and ideas of contagion -- The trial of Spencer Cowper : expert witnesses to the rescue -- Notes on placentophagy. |
| Note |
English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide |
| Subject |
Medicine and the humanities.
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Medicine in Literature
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Philosophy, Medical
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine. |
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. |
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MEDICAL -- Diseases. |
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine. |
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine. |
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Medicine -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01015007 |
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Medicine in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015167 |
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Medicine and the humanities. (OCoLC)fst01015158 |
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Medizin |
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Literatur |
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Kultur |
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Geschichte |
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Medicine. |
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Health & Biological Sciences. |
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Medicine - General. |
| ISBN |
0585028443 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585028446 (electronic bk.) |
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0809314193 |
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9780809314195 |
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