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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877515303321

Titolo

Spaces, objects and identities in early modern Italian medicine / / edited by Sandra Cavallo and David Gentilcore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell, 2008

ISBN

1-282-11609-6

9786612116094

1-4443-0663-4

1-4443-0664-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (131 p.)

Collana

Renaissance studies special issues

Altri autori (Persone)

CavalloSandra

GentilcoreDavid

Disciplina

610.945

Soggetti

Medicine - Italy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published for the Society for Renaissance Studies."

"First published as volume 21, issue 4 of Renaissance studies."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Miscarriages of apothecary justice: un-separate spaces of work and family in early modern Rome / Elizabeth S. Cohen -- Pharmacies as centres of communication in early modern Venice / Filippo de Vivo -- Women, wax and anatomy in the century of things / Lucia Dacome -- Medical competence, anatomy and the polity in seventeenth-century Rome / Silvia De Renzi -- Malpighi and the holy body: medical experts and miraculous evidence in seventeenth-century Italy / Gianna Pomata.

Sommario/riassunto

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 sourcesExplores 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 separat