Scientiae in the history of medicine / [edited by] Fabrizio Baldasarri, Fabio Zampieri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baldassarri, Fabrizio, editor.

Zampieri, Fabio, 1976- editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Storia della medicina (Rome, Italy) ; 4.

Monographic series on history of medicine L'Erma di Bretschneider

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

History.

Physical Description:

334 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Roma ; Bristol, CT : L'Erma di Bretschneider, [2021]

Summary:

This volume collects essays dealing with the history of medicine in early modern Europe, and ranging from experiments and practices to the role of erudition in court-medicine, from the study of tarantism and plagues to the uses of drugs, from the collaborations and dissemination of medical knowledge to the epistemological classification of diseases. The essays aim to reveal the boundless investigation in medical knowledge, ultimately blurring the line of diverse fields, and focus on the extension of medicine as a scientia. Besides the investigation of specific figures and several case studies of early modern medicine, the volume opens with an exploration of the Medical School of Padua and also deals with some important locations that shape the science of medicine, such as anatomical theatres, botanical gardens, and museums.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Scientiae in the History of Medicine: an Introduction / Fabio Zampieri

Section 1 Grounding Scientia: the Locations of Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern Period, and Beyond

The University of Padua Medical School from the Origins to the Early Modern Time: A Historical Overview / Fabio Zampieri

The Anatomy Theater: Towards a Performative History / Cynthia Klestinec

Sixteenth-Century University Gardens in a Medical and Botanical Context / Florike Egmond

The Origin and Development of Medical Museum Heritage in Padua / Alberto Zanatta

The Science and Ethics concerning the Legacy of Human Remains and Historical Collections: The Gordon Museum of Pathology in London / Roberta Ballestriero

Section 2 Shaping Scientia: Case Studies of Early Modern Medicine, and Beyond

Between Text and Practice: The Anatomical Injections of Berengario da Carpi / R. Allen Shotwell

Sources and Resources of Court Medicine in Mid-Sixteenth Rome: Erudition as an Epistemological and Ethical Claim / Maria Kawadia

The Experience of the Physician Girolamo Donzellini in the 1575 Venetian Plague: Between Scientia and Heterodoxy / Alessandra Celati

Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic Medicine: From Astral Causation to Pharmacology and Treatment / Elisabeth Moreau

Elements of Descartes' Medical Scientia: Books, Medical Schools, and Collaborations / Fabrizio Baldassarri

Testing Drugs in Giorgio Baglivi's Dissertation on Vesicants / Luca Tonetti

Tracing Senguerd's Footprints: Sciences and Tarantism at Leiden Universtiy (1667

1715) / Manuel De Carli

Classifications from an Epistemological Point of View with Particular Attention to the Classifications of Diseases / Pierdaniele Giaretta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9788891320186

8891320188

OCLC:

1259517480

Publisher Number:

99988523706