1. From 'Step Years' to 'Menopause': The Changing Notion of the 'Climacteric'.- 2. "Wrath, Women and Wine, Throw Our Bodies to the Swine": Affects and Illness in the Early Modern Period.- 3. Lukas Cranach's Representations of Melancholia, and the Medicine of His Time.- 4. "My Aesculapian Oracle!": Patient Letters as a Source of a Cultural History of Illness Experience in the Eighteenth Century.- 5. Cura Palliativa: The Idea and Practice of Palliative Treatment in Pre-Modern Medicine, ca. 1500-1850.- 6. Forms and Strategies of Authorization in Early Modern Medicine.- 7. Between Identity-Formation and Self-Staging: Medical Self-Fashioning in the Early Modern Period.- 8. Forms and Functions of Medical Case Reports in the Early Modern Period, 1500-1800.- 9. Casuistic Medical Training in the Sixteenth Century: The Paduan Collegia.- 10. The Concept of Innate Heat in Avicenna's Canon Medicinae.- 11. In Awe of Creation: Daniel Sennert's Conception of Total Substance, Innate Heat, and Spontaneous Generation, and His Atomistic Theory of Form.
