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Pathology in practice : diseases and dissections in early modern Europe
Title
Pathology in practice : diseases and dissections in early modern Europe / edited by Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola, and Maria Conforti.
ISBN
1315599678
1317083326
9781315599670
9781317083320
1472463811
9781472463814
Publication
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. 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. Drawing on different approaches and on sources as varied as notes taken at the dissection table, legal records and learned publications, the chapters explore how autopsies informed the understanding of pathology of all those involved. With a broad geography, including Rome, Amsterdam and Geneva, the book recaptures the lost worlds of physicians, surgeons, patients, families and civic authorities as they used corpses to understand diseases and make sense of suffering. The evidence from post-mortems was not straightforward, but between 1500 and 1750 medical practitioners rose to the challenge, proposing various solutions to the difficulties they encountered and creating a remarkable body of knowledge. The book shows the scope and diversity of this tradition and how laypeople contributed their knowledge and expectations to the wide-ranging exchanges stimulated by the opening of bodies."--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Pathology in practice. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
The history of medicine in context
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pathological dissections in early modern Europe : practice and knowledge / Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola and Maria Conforti
Humanist post-mortems : philology and therapy / Gionata Liboni
Organising pathological knowledge : Théophile Bonet's sepulchretum and the making of a tradition / Massimo Rinaldi
The problems of anatomia practica and how to solve them : pathological dissection around 1700 / Marco Bresadola
Post-mortems, anatomical dissections and humoural pathology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Michael Stolberg
Seats and series : dissecting diseases in the seventeenth century / Silvia De Renzi
Visible signs, invisible processes : explaining poison in the late seventeenth century / Maria Conforti
Frederik Ruysch, surgical anatomy and the Amsterdam Republic of medicine / Rina Knoeff
Pre- and post-mortem inquiries : assessing poisoning in the law courts of sixteenth-century Rome / Elisa Andretta
Dissecting pain : patients, families and medical expertise in early modern Germany / Annemarie Kinzelbach
Therapeutic post-mortems in and around eighteenth-century Geneva / Philip Rieder.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Autopsy - history
Dissection - history
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures - history
History of Medicine
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
History, 18th Century
Pathology - history
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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