A comprehensive examination of medical ethics in the Renaissance. It investigates the ethical considerations, evaluations of procedures, and techniques of problem-solving in the writings of European physicians and surgeons from the mid-sixteenth through the mid-seventeenth centuries.
Aus dem Inhalt: The Tradition of Genial Melancholy Critical Reaction to Genial Melancholy Melancholic Enthusiasm and Divination in England The Mad Melancholic between Ridicule and Charity: Views of Luther, Erasmus and Cervantes The Nexus of Witchcraft, Male Impotence and Melancholy in Renaissance Thought Melancholy, Utopia and Arcadia Melancholic Divination and Cure of Melancholy in Shakespeare Milton’s Pleasures of Melancholy