Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe (Clio Medica 77)

Contents:
Introduction; 1 Truth Under the Veil; 2 Resembling Sins: Monstrous Births as Moralising Emblems; 3 The Divine Works of God; 4 A Farrago of Medical Curiosities; 5 Finding Fault with Nature: Some Causes of Monstrous Births; 6 From the Womb to the Tomb; 7 Retrospective Diagnosis; Conclusion; Appendix: Human Monstrous Births 1500-1700; Bibliography; Index