The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-28481-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 598 g

Reihe: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science

When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine, edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, shows how in the late Middle Ages the dead body, which had previously rarely been questioned, became a specific object of investigation by doctors, philosophers, theologians and jurists. The volume sheds new light on the elements of continuity, but also on the effort made to liberate the semantization of the corpse from what were, broadly speaking, necromantic practices, which would eventually merge into forensic medicine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bates, A.W.

Carnevale, Diego

de Frenza, Lucia

Duranti, Tommaso

Ferragud, Carmel

Galtarossa, Massimo

Kästner, Alexander

Lewis, Margaret Brannan

Shotwell, R. Allen

Siena, Kevin

Tisci, Caterina

Ceglia, Francesco Paolo de

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Contributing Authors

Introduction: Corpses, Evidence and Medical Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

Francesco Paolo de Ceglia

SECTION 1. FROM DIVINATION TO AUTOPSY

1. Saving the Phenomenon: Why Corpses Bled in the Presence of their Murderer in Early Modern Science

Francesco Paolo de Ceglia

2. Unfamiliar Faces: The Identification of Corpses In Late Medieval Valencia

Carmel Ferragud

3. Reading the Corpse (Bologna, Mid 13th-Early 16thth Century)

Tommaso Duranti

SECTION 2. THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THE ANATOMICAL GAZE

4. Dissection Techniques, Forensics and Anatomy in the Sixteenth Century

Allen Shotwell

5. Monstrous Exegesis: Opening Up Double Monsters in Early Modern Europe

Alan W.H. Bates

6. Corpses, Contagion and Courage: Fear and the Inspection of Bodies in Seventeenth-Century London

Kevin Siena

7. Knowledge from and on Bodies and Resistance to Anatomical Discourse (Padua, 16th-18th Centuries)

Massimo Galtarossa

SECTION 3: CORPSES AND EVIDENCES

8. Reading Deeds, Lifestyles and Bodies: The Classification of Suicide in Early Modern Europe

Alexander Kästner

9. Corpses and Confessions: Forensic Investigation and Infanticide in Early Modern Germany

Margaret Brannan Lewis

10. Visum et Repertum: Medical Doctrine and Criminal Procedures in France and Naples (17th-18th Centuries)

Diego Carnevale

11. Frightening Whirlpools: Drowning in France in the Eighteenth Century

Lucia De Frenza and Caterina Tisci

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, Ph.D. (2001), is a Professor of History of Science at the University of Bari, where he directs the Interuniversity Research Center, Seminary of the History of Science. He has often been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published monographs and articles on the relationship between the history of science and theology, including The Secret of Saint Januarius. Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle (Einaudi, 2016).