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Pomata, Gianna, Contracting a Cure: Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna, [Italian sources] translated by the author, with the assistance of Rosemarie Foy and Anna Taraboletti Segre, Baltimore - Londres, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, xvii + 294 pp.
- Resum
- In Contracting a Cure, Gianna Pomata tells the hitherto unknown story of a fundamental shift in the relationship between healers and patients in early modern Europe. Using a wide array of sources - including the rich archives of Bologna's College of Medicine and legal records from several European countriesPomata explores the tradition of the "agreement for a cure" whereby the practitioner was contractually bound to heal the sick person within a specified period and for a stipulated sum. If the patient was not cured, he or she had a legal right to reclaim from the practitioner any money advanced for the cure. The author argues that such contracts implied a "horizontal model" of healing that gave considerable power to patients and that, in consequence, was a serious hindrance to the growing power of the medical profession.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Dret - Legislació
- Notes
- Trad. it.: La promessa di guarigione: malati e curatori in antico regime, Bologna, secoli XVI-XVIII, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1994.
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