Medicine and the Five Senses

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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 anatomy 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; 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; Notes; Index.