Medicine, Physiology and Religion in Early Modern England
First Statement of Responsibility
by Richard Sugg.
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London
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Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
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2013
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(408 pages :)
CONTENTS NOTE
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Machine generated contents note: --;List of Illustrations --;Acknowledgements --;List of Abbreviations --;Introduction --;1. The Physiology of the Soul --;2. The Soul in Three Dimensions: Pietro Pomponazzi and Andreas Vesalius --;3. Aspiring Souls (I): Tamburlaine the Great --;4. Aspiring Souls (II): Doctor Faustus --;5. Painful Inquisition: Body-Soul Problems in Early Modern Christianity --;6. The Differential Soul: Women, Fools and Personal Identity --;7. The Dying Soul (I): Christian Mortalism as Religious Heresy --;8. The Dying Soul (II): Mortalism as Literary Fantasy --;9. Anatomy and the Rise of the Brain --;Conclusion The True Location of the Soul --;Bibliography --;Index.
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What was the soul? Christians agreed that it was the immortal core of each human being. Yet there was no agreement on where the soul was, what it was, or how it could be joined to the body. The Smoke of the Soul explores the anxieties and excitement generated by the mysterious zone where matter met spirit, and where human life met eternity.