附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-335).
Bottoms up! The fine arts and flagellation -- Robert Musil : what price homosexual sadism? -- Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa : murder, madrigals and masochism -- The sticky end of Frantisek Koczwara, composer of The Battle of Prague -- Weighing the heart agaist the feather of truth -- Can the leper change his spots? The iconography of leprosy -- The iconography of Fanny Hill : how to illustrate a dirty book -- Johnson and Boswell : "Vile melancholy" and "The hypochondriack" -- Margery Kempe : hysteria and mysticism reconciled -- All the colours of the Rimbaud -- Reuben's mandrakes : inferitliy in the Bible -- The plague at Granada, 1348-49 : Ibn al-Khatib and ideas of contagion -- The trial of Spencer Cowper : expert witnesses to the rescue -- Notes on placentophagy.
