Pathology in Practice (eBook, PDF)

Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe
Redaktion: de Renzi, Silvia; Conforti, Maria; Bresadola, Marco

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. It shows how autopsies informed the understanding of pathology of those involved, from medical practitioners' debates to laypeople's experience of suffering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317083320
• Artikelnr.: 50528337

Autorenporträt

Silvia De Renzi teaches history of medicine at the Open University, UK. Marco Bresadola teaches history of science at the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he is director of the MA in science communication. Maria Conforti teaches history of medicine at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Framing the Practice
1. Pathological Dissections in Early Modern Europe: Practice and Knowledge
Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola and Maria Conforti
2. Humanist Post-Mortems: Philology and Therapy
Gionata Liboni
3. Organising Pathological Knowledge: Théophile Bonet's Sepulchretum and
the Making of a Tradition
Massimo Rinaldi
4. The Problems of Anatomia Practica and How to Solve Them: Pathological
Dissection Around 1700
Marco Bresadola
Part 2: Multiple Pathologies
5. Post-Mortems, Anatomical Dissections and Humoural Pathology in the
Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Michael Stolberg
6. Seats and Series: Dissecting Diseases in the Seventeenth Century
Silvia De Renzi
7. Visible Signs, Invisible Processes: Explaining Poison in the Late
Seventeenth Century
Maria Conforti
8. Frederik Ruysch, Surgical Anatomy and the Amsterdam Republic of Medicine
Rina Knoeff
Part 3: Productive Dialogues
9. Pre- and Post-Mortem Inquiries: Assessing Poisoning in the Law Courts of
Sixteenth-Century Rome
Elisa Andretta
10. Dissecting Pain: Patients, Families and Medical Expertise in Early
Modern Germany
Annemarie Kinzelbach
11. Therapeutic Post-Mortems in and Around Eighteenth-Century Geneva
Philip Rieder