Cavallo / Gentilcore Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0664-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 136 Seiten, E-Book

This collection, by an international team of scholars, presentsexciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italywhich questions the conventional boundaries of medical history.
* Brings together historians of medicine and scholars ofdifferent backgrounds who are re-visiting the field from newperspectives and with the support of innovative questions andunexplored sources
* Explores crucial areas of intersection between the territory ofmedicine and that of law, politics, religion, art and materialculture and highlights the connections between these apparentlyseparate fields
* Challenges our understanding of what we regard as medicalactivities, medical identities, spaces and objects
* Addresses the study of medical careers, medical identities andspaces where medical activities were performed e.g. apothecaryshops, courtrooms, convents and museums

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cavallo, Sandra

Gentilcore, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (Sandra Cavallo, Royal Holloway, University of Londonand David Gentilcore, University of Leicester).
1. Miscarriages of Apothecary Justice: Un-separate Spaces ofWork and Family in Early Modern Rome (Elizabeth S. Cohen, YorkUniversity).
2. Pharmacies as Centres of Communication in Early Modern Venice(Filippo de Vivo, Birkbeck, University of London).
3. Women, Wax and Anatomy in the 'Century of Things'(Lucia Dacome, Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS) and University ofToronto).
4. Medical Competence, Anatomy and the Polity inSeventeenth-Century Rome (Silvia De Renzi, The OpenUniversity).
5. Malpighi and the Holy Body: Medical Experts and MiraculousEvidence in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Gianna Pomata, University ofBologna).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Cavallo is Reader in Early Modern History at RoyalHolloway, University of London.
David Gentilcore is Reader in History at the Universityof Leicester.