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1. Galen at the bedside: the methods of a medical detective / Vivian Nutton -- 2. Sensory perception and its metaphors in the time of Richard of Fournival / Elizabeth Sears -- 3. The manifest and the hidden in the Renaissance clinic / Jerome Bylebyl -- 4. In bad odour: smell and its significance in medicine from antiquity to the seventeenth century / Richard Palmer -- 5. Seeing and believing: contrasting attitudes towards observational autonomy among French Galenists in the first half of the seventeenth century / Laurence Brockliss -- 6. 'The mark of truth': looking and learning in some anatomical illustrations from the Renaissance and eighteenth century / Martin Kemp -- 7. The art and science of seeing in medicine: physiognomy 1780-1820 / Ludmilla Jordanova -- 8. The introduction of percussion and stethoscopy to early nineteenth-century Edinburgh / Malcolm Nicolson -- 9. Educating the senses: students, teachers and medical rhetoric in eighteenth-century London / Susan C. Lawrence. |
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10. The rise of physical examination / Roy Porter -- 11. Touch, sexuality and disease / Sander Gilman -- 12. Sense and sensibility in late nineteenth-century surgery in America / Gert Brieger -- 13. Training the senses, training the mind / Merriley Borell -- 14. Technology and the use of the senses in twentieth-century medicine / Stanley J. Reiser. |
| General note | Based on a Symposium on Medicine and the Five Senses, held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine on 11-12 June 1987. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-323) and index. |
| LCCN | 91036282 |
| ISBN | 0521361141 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780521361149 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0521611989 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780521611985 (pbk.) |
