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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, Mass., : Blackwell, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (131 p.)
• Disciplina: 610.945
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Italy - History
• Altri autori: CavalloSandra GentilcoreDavid
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Spaces, objects and identities in early modern Italian medicine
• ISBN: 1-282-11609-6; 9786612116094; 1-4443-0663-4; 1-4443-0664-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996205900903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Renaissance studies special issues.