A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and

The interpretation of eighteenth-century medicine has been much contested. Some have view it as a wilderness of rationalism and arid theories between the Scient

If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness as debilitating as a bad diet, inquiries into assorted discourses in 18th-century France still have much to

This title provides an analysis of how literary fiction borrowed narratorial devices from medical texts and vice-versa.

The Enlightenment was a period of intense activity devoted to discovery and learning about the natural world, the past and other civilizations. Classification,