
Paracelsus
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Bruce T. Moran tells the story of how alchemy refashioned medical practice, and brings to light the ideas, workings and major texts of an important Renaissance figure, showing how his tenacity and endurance changed the medical world for the better, and brought new perspectives to the study of nature.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Bones
- 1: Medicine Lost in a Labyrinth and the Defence of Defiant Healing
- 2: Seeing through the Body: Nature, Disease and What the True Physician Must Know
- 3: The Alchemy of Things in the Making: Medicines as Poisons and Poisons as Medicines
- 4: Pursuing the Arts Where God Has Placed Them: On the Road for the Sake of Learning
- 5: 'I Am Ashamed of Medicine': Love, Labour and the Spirit of Christ in the Transformation of the Secular World
- 6: Invisible Beings and Invisible Diseases: Magic and Insanity in an Age of Faith
- 7: Inventing Paracelsus: The Use and Abuse of a Renaissance Life
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index
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