Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226761312
Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.
Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1400858658
The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy, and especially on its role in the university teaching of philosophy of medicine and physiological theory. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Katharine Park
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1400855004
Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Ian Dawson
Publisher : Enchanted Lion Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781592700387
Learn about medicine during the Renaissance period.
Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0472037463
A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. With remarkably detailed scholarship, Siraisi investigates doctors’ efforts to explore the legacies handed down to them from ancient medical and anatomical writings.
Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Medicine, Medieval
ISBN :
Author : Nicola Barber
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1410946622
How much did the Renaissance change medical history and public health? Did landmark developments benefit the everyday lives of ordinary people? This book looks at the new 'scientific' ways of learning and experimentation of the period, to show what health and disease were like in the Old and New Worlds.
Author : Vivian Nutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003223184
This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context. Nutton investigates the changes brought about in medicine by the opening-up of the European world to new drugs and new diseases, such as syphilis and the Sweat, and by the development of printing and more efficient means of communication. Chapters examine how civic institutions such as Health Boards, hospitals, town doctors, and healers became more significant in the fight against epidemic disease, and special attention is given to the role of women and domestic medicine. The final section, on beliefs, explores the revised Galenism of academic medicine, including a new emphasis on anatomy and its most vocal antagonists, Paracelsians. The volume concludes by considering the effect of religious changes on medicine, including the marginalisation, and often expulsion, of non-Christian practitioners. Based on a wide reading of primary sources from literature and art across Europe, Renaissance Medicine is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of medicine and disease in the sixteenth century.
Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521425921
A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.
Author : Jean A. Givens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351875566
Images in medieval and early modern treatises on medicine, pharmacy, and natural history often confound our expectations about the functions of medical and scientific illustrations. They do not look very much like the things they purport to portray; and their actual usefulness in everyday medical practice or teaching is not obvious. By looking at works as diverse as herbals, jewellery, surgery manuals, lay health guides, cinquecento paintings, manuscripts of Pliny's Natural History, and Leonardo's notebooks, Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550 addresses fundamental questions about the interplay of art and science from the thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth century: What counts as a medical illustration in the Middle Ages? What are the purposes and audiences of the illustrations in medieval medical, pharmaceutical, and natural history texts? How are images used to clarify, expand, authenticate, and replace these texts? How do images of natural objects, observed phenomena, and theoretical concepts amplify texts and convey complex cultural attitudes? What features lead us to regard some of these images as typically 'medieval' while other exactly contemporary images strike us as 'Renaissance' or 'early modern' in character? Art historians, medical historians, historians of science, and specialists in manuscripts and early printed books will welcome this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary examination of the role of visualization in early scientific inquiry.
