History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning / Nancy G. Siraisi.
2007
R146 .S57 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning / Nancy G. Siraisi.
Author
Siraisi, Nancy G., author.
ISBN
9780472116027 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0472116029 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0472116029 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2007.
Language
English
Description
ix, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
9780472116027
99820756819
99820756819
Call Number
R146 .S57 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
610.9
Summary
"A major, pathbreaking work, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi's examination into the intersections of medically trained authors and history in the period 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate disciplinary traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. Far from then-contributions being a mere footnote in the historical record, medical writers had extensive involvement in the reading, production, and shaping of historical knowledge during this important period. With remarkably detailed scholarship, Siraisi investigates doctors' efforts to explore the legacies handed down to them from ancient medical and anatomical writings and the difficult reconciliations this required between the authority of the ancient world and the discoveries of the modern. She also studies the ways in which sixteenth -century medical authors wrote history, both in their own medical texts and in more general historical works. In the course of her study, Siraisi finds that what allowed medical writers to become so fully engaged in the writing of history was their general humanistic background, their experience of history through the field of medicine's past, and the tools that the writing of history offered to the development of a rapidly evolving profession."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-420) and index.
Series
Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
pt. 1. History in medical literature. Preface to part 1. A diagnosis from history
1. Bodies past
2. History and histories in medical texts
3. Life writing and disciplinary history
pt. 2. Physicians, civil history, and antiquarianism. Preface to part 2. Rival physician historians of the Italian wars
4. Milan : problems of exemplarity in medicine and history
5. Rome : medicine, histories, antiquities, and public health
6. Vienna : physician historians and antiquaries in court and university
7. Beyond Europe
Conclusion : Medicine, history, and the changing face of scientific knowledge.
pt. 1. History in medical literature. Preface to part 1. A diagnosis from history
1. Bodies past
2. History and histories in medical texts
3. Life writing and disciplinary history
pt. 2. Physicians, civil history, and antiquarianism. Preface to part 2. Rival physician historians of the Italian wars
4. Milan : problems of exemplarity in medicine and history
5. Rome : medicine, histories, antiquities, and public health
6. Vienna : physician historians and antiquaries in court and university
7. Beyond Europe
Conclusion : Medicine, history, and the changing face of scientific knowledge.