Communities of learned experience : epistolary medicine in the Renaissance / Nancy G. Siraisi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siraisi, Nancy G.

Contributor:

Charles S. Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Singleton Center books in premodern Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--Europe--History.

Physicians.

Lange, Johann, 1485-1565.

Lange, Johann.

Augenio, Orazio, approximately 1527-1603.

Augenio, Orazio.

Correspondence as Topic.

History.

Europe.

Physicians--history.

History, 16th Century.

Medical Subjects:

Correspondence as Topic.

Europe.

Physicians--history.

History, 16th Century.

Physical Description:

163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Sixteenth-century physicians had their letters on medical topics published in printed collections to record their exchange of ideas and make known their professional expertise. -- During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physicians in early sixteenth-century Europe may thus be regarded as products of medical humanism. The letters of mid- and late sixteenth-century Italian and German physicians examined in Communities of Learned Experience by Nancy G. Siraisi also illustrate practices associated with the concepts of the Republic of Letters: open and relatively informal communication among a learned community and a liberal exchange of information and ideas. Additionally, such published medical correspondence may often have served to provide mutual reinforcement of professional reputation. Siraisi uses some of these collections to compare approaches to sharing medical knowledge across broad regions of Europe and within a city, with the goal of illuminating geographic differences as well as diversity within social, urban, courtly, and academic environments. The collections she has selected include essays on general medical topics addressed to colleagues or disciples, some advice for individual patients (usually written at the request of the patient's doctor), and a strong dose of controversy.

Contents:

Contexts and communication

Johann Lange : the epistolae medicinales of a court physician

The medical networks of Orazio Augenio.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781421407494

9781421407845

1421407493

1421407841

OCLC:

779530069