What is included with this book?
Acknowledgments | p. vii |
List of Illustrations | p. xv |
Prologue | p. xvii |
A Note on Terminology | p. xxiii |
Foundations: Ancient Insights: (Antiquity: Sixth Century BC to Second Century AD) | |
Cosmic Elements | p. 3 |
Human Elements | p. 6 |
Types, Temperaments, and Environments | p. 9 |
Prescriptions and Priests | p. 14 |
From Greece to Alexandria | p. 18 |
The Naked Eye | p. 21 |
The Breath of Life | p. 24 |
Alexandrian Sects and Galenic Travels | p. 29 |
Primordial Passions | p. 33 |
Three Souls | p. 37 |
Essences: The Classical Trail: (Eastern Middle Ages: Seventh to Twelfth Centuries) | |
Byzantium | p. 45 |
The Arab Conquest | p. 48 |
Hunayn ibn-Is'haq and the Translators | p. 50 |
Divine Creation and Human Frailty | p. 53 |
Religion and Emotion | p. 57 |
New Departures | p. 61 |
Persian Insights | p. 64 |
Out of Spain | p. 68 |
Remedies: Miraculous Medicine: (Western Middle Ages: Fifth to Fourteenth Centuries) | |
Faith and Healing | p. 73 |
Scholasticism and Humoural Care | p. 78 |
Old Convictions | p. 80 |
The High and the Low | p. 83 |
Outsiders | p. 87 |
Bloody Treatments | p. 89 |
Verbena, Olives, and Herbal Power | p. 92 |
Apothecaries, Alchemists, and Amulets | p. 96 |
Airs, Waters, Places, Diets | p. 98 |
Fearful Epidemics | p. 104 |
Life After Death | p. 109 |
Harmonies: Renaissance Bodies and Melancholy Souls: (Renaissance: Fifteenth Century to Early Seventeenth Century) | |
Hypochondria at Court | p. 113 |
The Black Sun | p. 115 |
Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics | p. 120 |
Cosmic Attunement | p. 124 |
Musical Therapy | p. 126 |
Artistic Astrology | p. 130 |
Paracelsus and the Magic of Nature | p. 135 |
Corpses, Books, and Reputations | p. 139 |
Beauty Beneath the Skin | p. 143 |
New Bodies, Old Science | p. 151 |
Diagnosing Melancholy | p. 155 |
Love-Maladies | p. 159 |
Uterine Fury and Satyriasis | p. 162 |
Anti-Melancholy Antidotes | p. 167 |
Nature: Of Blood, Airs, and Reasons: (Scientific Revolution: Seventeenth Century) | |
New Science, Old Bodies | p. 173 |
Campanella's Heavens and Galileo's Revolutions | p. 175 |
Atoms and Humours | p. 179 |
From Spirits to Circulation | p. 183 |
Harvey's Blood | p. 187 |
Cartesian Souls | p. 191 |
Anti-Humours | p. 195 |
Empiricism | p. 199 |
Medical Secrets and Popular Healers | p. 202 |
Transfusions and Confusions | p. 207 |
Brain: Passions and Nerves: (The Making of Modernity: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries) | |
Cartesian Humours | p. 215 |
The Physiological Self | p. 217 |
The Sensitive Soul | p. 220 |
Introducing "Neurologie" | p. 223 |
Enlightened Thinkers, Old-Fashioned Doctors, and the Embodied Mind | p. 227 |
Of Mechanism and Vitalism | p. 231 |
Nervous Juice | p. 235 |
The Material Soul | p. 238 |
Modern Humours | p. 243 |
Mental Illness | p. 246 |
Mesmerism | p. 249 |
The Birth of Psychiatry | p. 253 |
Brain Localization | p. 258 |
Hypnosis, Hysterics, Neurosis | p. 263 |
Science: Contemporary Humours: (Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries) | |
The Neurological Self | p. 271 |
The Pharmaceutical Self | p. 274 |
Brain Images and Body Image | p. 280 |
The Emotional Self | p. 282 |
New Temperaments | p. 287 |
Mind Over Matter | p. 291 |
The Regimen Returns | p. 295 |
Full Circle | p. 301 |
Endnotes | p. 307 |
References | p. 329 |
Picture Credits | p. 352 |
Index | p. 353 |
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