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Book SynopsisFrom Step Years to Menopause The Changing Notion of the Climacteric.- Wrath, Women and Wine, Throw Our Bodies to the Swine Affects and Illness in the Early Modern Period.- Lukas Cranach's Representations of Melancholia, and the Medicine of His Time.- My Aesculapian Oracle Patient Letters as a Source of a Cultural History of Illness Experience in the Eighteenth Century.- Cura Palliativa The Idea and Practice of Palliative Treatment in Pre-Modern Medicine ca 15001850.- Forms and Strategies of Authorization in Early Modern Medicine.- Between Identity-Formation and Self-Staging: Medical Self-Fashioning in the Early Modern Period.- Forms and Functions of Medical Case Reports in the Early Modern Period (15001800).- Casuistic Medical Training in the Sixteenth Century: The Paduan Collegia.- The Concept of Innate Heat in Avicenna's Canon Medicinae.- In Awe of Creation Daniel Sennert's Conception of Total Substance, Innate Heat, and Spontaneous Generation, and His Atomistic Theory of Form.
