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Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine
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Artikel-Nr:
9781444306644
Veröffentl:
2009
Einband:
E-Book
Seiten:
136
Autor:
Sandra Cavallo
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
Reflowable E-Book
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This collection, by an international team of scholars, presents exciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italy which questions the conventional boundaries of medical history. Brings together historians of medicine and scholars of different backgrounds who are re-visiting the field from new perspectives and with the support of innovative questions and unexplored sources Explores crucial areas of intersection between the territory of medicine and that of law, politics, religion, art and material culture and highlights the connections between these apparently separate fields Challenges our understanding of what we regard as medical activities, medical identities, spaces and objects Addresses the study of medical careers, medical identities and spaces where medical activities were performed e.g. apothecary shops, courtrooms, convents and museums
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
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.