Kivistö, Sari
Medical Analogy in Latin Satire
1. Introduction: Medicine for the Sick Soul
Sari Kivistö
2. Medical Meta-language: Renaissance Commentaries and Poetics on the Healing Nature of Satire
Sari Kivistö
3. Painfully Happy: Satirical Disease Eulogies and the Good Life
Sari Kivistö
4. Wonderfully Unaware: Sensory Disabilities, Contemplation and Consolation
Sari Kivistö
5. Outlook and Virtue: Morally Symptomatic Physical Peculiarities
Sari Kivistö
6. Satire as Therapy
Sari Kivistö
Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, History of Medicine, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Classical and Antique Literature, European Literature
- Author(s)
- Kivistö, Sari
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 223 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230244870
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-30999-3