Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance

Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University and author of Looking at Animals in Human History and editor of A Cultural History of Animals (Berg, 2007).William Bynum is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London and author of many books, including Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction.

• Introduction William Bynum (University College London, UK)1 Birth and Death in Early Modern Europe Lianne McTavish (University of Alberta, CANADA)2 Why Me? Why Now? How? The Body in Health and Disease Margaret Healy (University of Sussex, UK)3 Sexuality: Of Man, Woman, and Beastly Business Katherine Crawford (Vanderbilt University, USA)4 The Body in /as Text: Medical Knowledge and Technologies in the Renaissance Susan Broomhall (University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA)5 The Common Body: Renaissance Popular Beliefs Karen Raber (University of Mississippi, USA)6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal Mary Rogers (independent scholar)7 The Marked Body as Otherness in Renaissance Italian Culture Patrizia Bettella (University of Alberta, CANADA)8 The Marked Body: The Witches, Lady Macbeth, and the Relics Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford, UK)9 Fashioning Civil Bodies and "Others": Cultural Representations Margaret Healy (University of Sussex, UK)10 Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies Margaret L. King (City University of New York, USA)Notes Bibliography Contributors Index