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Siraisi, Nancy G., History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning, Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press (Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world), 2007, ix + 438 pp.
- Resum
- A major, path-breaking 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 their 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.
Table of Contents:
* Introduction 1
Part I. History in Medical Literature
* A Diagnosis from History 23
* Bodies Past 25
* History and Histories in Medical Texts 63
* Life Writing and Disciplinary History 106
Part II. Physicians, Civil History, and Antiquarianism
* Rival Physician Historians of the Italian Wars 137
* Milan: Problems of Exemplarity in Medicine and History 141
* Rome: Medicine, Histories, Antiquities, and Public Health 168
* Vienna: Physician Historians and Antiquaries in Court and University 194
* Beyond Europe 225
* Conclusion: Medicine, History, and the Changing Face of Scientific Knowledge 261
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Historiografia
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=243426
- URL
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