- Extremes: A Mirror
- Extremes of the Heart
- The Burning Heart: Why people drive themselves to extremes, as illustrated by the comparison of Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais
- Heart Transplants: Organ worship, from Saint Marguerite Marie and the Sacred Heart to Dr. Christiaan Barnard
- The Neurotic Heart: A four-hour analysis of Gustav Mahler by Dr. Sigmund Freud during a summer afternoon walk in Leiden
- Soldier’s Heart: A medical problem of those who have no desire to be heroes
- Extremes of Men and Knives
- The Perfect Crime: How the maid Corday stabbed the butcher Marat, and how they fared posthumously
- The Anatomy Lesson: Some instructive practices around the dissecting table
- Eternal Youth: Retaining male potency, a losing but heroic battle
- “Viva il Coltello”: Masculinity sacrificed to Italian opera
- Extremes of Faith
- Parthenogenesis: Immaculate conception in lizards and the mother goddess, a lesson in biology and Mariology
- Heretics: Paying the cost of one’s convictions, as illustrated by the fate of the Cathars
- Anorexia Religiosa: The eating habits of saints and young girls, with particular reference to Catherine of Siena
- Extremes of the Senses
- A Taste for Cabin Boys: Cannibalism for survival and as a ritual, with some unexpected consequences
- In the Land of the Blind: How the world failed to see what Louis Braille could feel
- False Paradises: Opium, absinthe, and the composition of satanic verse
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