The Book of Madness and Cures
by Regina O'Melveny
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Pub Date Apr 03 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: a woman who
practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée to
this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the
secrets of the human body.
Then her father disappears and Gabriella faces
a crisis: she is no longer permitted to treat her patients, women who need her
desperately, without her father's patronage. She sets out across Europe to find
where-and why-he has gone. Following clues from his occasional enigmatic
letters, Gabriella crosses Switzerland, Germany and France, entering strange and
forbidding cities. She travels to Scotland, the Netherlands, and finally to
Morocco. In each new land she probes the mystery of her father's flight, and
opens new mysteries of her own. Not just mysteries of ailments and treatments,
but ultimate mysteries of mortality, love, and the timeless human
spirit.
Filled with medical lore and sensuous, vivid details of
Renaissance life, THE BOOK OF MADNESS AND CURES is an intoxicating and
unforgettable debut
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780316195836 |
| PRICE | $25.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 336 |
