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By Winfried Schleiner. 230 pp. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press, 1995. $55. ISBN 0-87840-593-3.

Winfried Schleiner circumscribes his study of Renaissance medical ethics in two ways: first, by limiting his primary sources to the writings of physicians (excluding, for the most part, those of theologians, philosophers, and jurists) and, second, by selecting the ethical issues addressed by Renaissance physicians that intrigued him most because of their relevance to the present. These topics include truth and pretense in medical practice, the cure of the body versus the cure of the mind or soul, and (for about half of the book) sexuality and medicine, especially the moral dilemmas of "removing seed" to preserve or restore health . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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