Author: Curtis Runstedler

Pender, Stephen and Nancy S. Struever (eds), Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

Aug 19, 2015

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Curtis Runstedler

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews

Stephen Pender and Nancy S. Struever (eds.), Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012). 310 pp. £74 hb. ISBN 9781409430223. The cover of Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe, which features the Greco-Roman figure Lady Rhetoric holding a caduceus, hints at the tandem relationship between rhetoric and medicine during the Renaissance…