Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. NOTE ON MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I An Ever Closer Union
6. CHAPTER 1 The Soul “I Take You, Body, to Be My Lawful Partner” 21
7. CHAPTER 2 The Self “To Have and to Hold from This Day Forward, for Better, for Worse” 48
8. CHAPTER 3 The Body “In Sickness and in Health, Until Death Do Us Part” 73
9. PART II Medicine for the Body and Soul
10. CHAPTER 4 Christianizing Bodily Cures 101
11. CHAPTER 5 A Ministry for the Medicus 133
12. PART III Medical Order and Disorder for Self and Society
13. CHAPTER 6 A Necessary and Timely Intervention 163
14. CHAPTER 7 Habits for Health 195
15. CONCLUSION 227
16. ABBREVIATIONS 239
17. NOTES 243
18. BIBLIOGRAPHY 315
19. INDEX 359
20. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 375