Analyzes the literary theme of moral conduct relating to medical conditions in a selection of noteworthy works, and provides a chronology of major events …

A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What bec…

The first study to analyze print vernacular herbals from the standpoint of gender, this book also recognizes the rhetorical agenda of female writers who c…