@article{764111,
      recid = {764111},
      author = {Langum, Virginia.},
      title = {Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval  Literature and Culture.},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan},
      address = {[New York] :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests,  and poets approached the relationship of the human body and  ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a  metaphor for sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies  physiologically dispose people to be angry, sad, or greedy?  If so, then is it their fault? Virginia Langum offers an  account of the medical imagery used to describe feelings  and actions in religious and literary contexts, referencing  a variety of behavioral discussions within medical  contexts. The study draws upon medical and theological  writing for its philosophical basis, and upon more popular  works of religion, as well as poetry, to show how these  themes were articulated, explored, and questioned more  widely in medieval culture.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/764111},
}