Healers in the making : students, physicians, and medical education in medieval Bologna (1250-1550) / by Kira Robison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robison, Kira, author.

Series:

Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 126.

The medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 126

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical education--Italy--Bologna.

Medical education.

Medical students--Study and teaching.

Medical students.

Medicine--Study and teaching--Italy--Bologna.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 199 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"Healers in the Making investigates medical instruction at the University of Bologna using the lens of practical medicine, focusing on both anatomical and surgical instruction and showing that teaching medicine between the late thirteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries was a consciously constructed and vigorous project that required ongoing local political and cultural negotiations beyond books and curriculum. Using municipal, institutional, and medical texts, Kira Robison examines the outward structures of academic and civic power involved in the formation of medical authority and illuminates the innovations in practical medical pedagogy that occurred during this era. In this way, Robison re-examines academic medicine, the professors, and students, returning them to the context of the medical marketplace within a dynamic and flourishing urban landscape"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-44411-4