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基本説明
Brings together historians of medicine and scholars of different backgrounds who are revisiting the field from new perspectives.
Full Description
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
Contents
Introduction (Sandra Cavallo, Royal Holloway, University of London and David Gentilcore, University of Leicester). 1. Miscarriages of Apothecary Justice: Un-separate Spaces of Work and Family in Early Modern Rome (Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University).
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 of Toronto).
4. Medical Competence, Anatomy and the Polity in Seventeenth-Century Rome (Silvia De Renzi, The Open University).
5. Malpighi and the Holy Body: Medical Experts and Miraculous Evidence in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Gianna Pomata, University of Bologna).
Index.
