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View Rights PortalIntroduction - Peter Elmer 1 Medicine in western Europe in 1500 - Sachiko Kusukawa 2 The sick and their healers - Silvia De Renzi 3 The medical renaissance of the sixteenth century: Vesalius, medical humanism and bloodletting - Sachiko Kusukawa 4 Medicine and religion in sixteenth-century Europe - Ole Peter Grell 5 Chemical medicine and the challenge to Galenism: the legacy of Paracelsus, 1560-1700 - Peter Elmer 6 Policies of health: diseases, poverty and hospitals - Silvia De Renzi 7 Old and new models of the body - Silvia De Renzi 8 Women and medicine - Silvia De Renzi 9 The care and cure of mental illness - Peter Elmer 10 War, medicine and the military revolution - Ole Peter Grell 11 Environment, health and population - Mark Jenner 12 Medicine and health in the age of European colonialism - Andrew Wear 13 Organization, training and the medical marketplace in the eighteenth century - Laurence William Brockliss ;
In early modern Europe, the visual image began to move, not only as it traveled across great distances but also due to the introduction of innovative visual formats that produced animation within the image itself. This book traces the arduous journeys of visual images through evidence of their use and reproduction along missionary routes from Europe to India, Japan, China, Brazil and Chile. It argues that missionary world travel was crucial to the early modern re-animation of the image through devices such as the reflection of the mirror, the multiple registers of vision of the anthropomorphic image, the imaginative and disorienting possibilities of the utopic image, and even the reconstitution of the sacred image with memories of the relation of travel to life and death. Within the journeys traced in the book, the visual image forged new connections between different locations and across different cultures, accumulating increasingly entangled histories. Even more intriguingly, these images frequently returned to Europe, changed but still recognisable, there to be used again with an awareness of their earlier travels. ;