Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University, USA and author of Looking at Animals in Human History and series editor of A Cultural History of Animals. William Bynum is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London, UK and author of many books, including Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction.

• IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction William Bynum, University College London, UK1 Birth and Death in Early Modern Europe Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta, Canada2 Why Me? Why Now? How? The Body in Health and Disease Margaret Healy, University of Sussex, UK3 Sexuality: Of Man, Woman, and Beastly Business Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University, USA4 The Body in /as Text: Medical Knowledge and Technologies in the Renaissance Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia5 The Common Body: Renaissance Popular Beliefs Karen Raber, University of Mississippi, USA6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal Mary Rogers, independent scholar7 The Marked Body as Otherness in Renaissance Italian Culture Patrizia Bettella, University of Alberta, Canada8 The Marked Body: The Witches, Lady Macbeth, and the Relics Diane Purkiss, University of Oxford, UK9 Fashioning Civil Bodies and "Others": Cultural Representations Margaret Healy, University of Sussex, UK10 Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies Margaret L. King, City University of New York, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index

Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University, USA and author of Looking at Animals in Human History and series editor of A Cultural History of Animals. William Bynum is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London, UK and author of many books, including Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction.

• IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction William Bynum, University College London, UK1 Birth and Death in Early Modern Europe Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta, Canada2 Why Me? Why Now? How? The Body in Health and Disease Margaret Healy, University of Sussex, UK3 Sexuality: Of Man, Woman, and Beastly Business Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University, USA4 The Body in /as Text: Medical Knowledge and Technologies in the Renaissance Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia5 The Common Body: Renaissance Popular Beliefs Karen Raber, University of Mississippi, USA6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal Mary Rogers, independent scholar7 The Marked Body as Otherness in Renaissance Italian Culture Patrizia Bettella, University of Alberta, Canada8 The Marked Body: The Witches, Lady Macbeth, and the Relics Diane Purkiss, University of Oxford, UK9 Fashioning Civil Bodies and "Others": Cultural Representations Margaret Healy, University of Sussex, UK10 Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies Margaret L. King, City University of New York, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index

Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University, USA and author of Looking at Animals in Human History and series editor of A Cultural History of Animals. William Bynum is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London, UK and author of many books, including Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction.

• IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction William Bynum, University College London, UK1 Birth and Death in Early Modern Europe Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta, Canada2 Why Me? Why Now? How? The Body in Health and Disease Margaret Healy, University of Sussex, UK3 Sexuality: Of Man, Woman, and Beastly Business Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University, USA4 The Body in /as Text: Medical Knowledge and Technologies in the Renaissance Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia5 The Common Body: Renaissance Popular Beliefs Karen Raber, University of Mississippi, USA6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal Mary Rogers, independent scholar7 The Marked Body as Otherness in Renaissance Italian Culture Patrizia Bettella, University of Alberta, Canada8 The Marked Body: The Witches, Lady Macbeth, and the Relics Diane Purkiss, University of Oxford, UK9 Fashioning Civil Bodies and "Others": Cultural Representations Margaret Healy, University of Sussex, UK10 Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies Margaret L. King, City University of New York, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index