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Darrera modificació: 2018-02-20
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Rampling, Jennifer M. - Jones, Peter M. (eds.), Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, Londres, Routledge (The History of Medicine in Context), 2017, 272 pp.
- Resum
- Building upon sustained scholarly and popular interest in both alchemy and pre-modern medicine, this volume reveals how physicians practiced alchemy and alchemists produced medicaments. It shows how, besides sharing knowledge, physicians and alchemists engaged in fierce polemics, adapted one another's techniques, and united against common foes. Whether appropriating medical knowledge or defining themselves in opposition to it, alchemical practitioners engaged continually with the practice, theory, and language of medicine. Adopting a longue duree approach to explore these connections, the sixteen essays in this collection each address a key topic in the history of alchemy and medicine, written by a subject specialist - in many cases, the leading authority on that topic. While European traditions provide the core of the volume, contributors also discuss Greco-Roman Egypt, medieval Islam, the Ottoman Empire, and the East Indies; accommodating Greek, Arabic, Latin, and vernacular traditions. Examination of these themes and contexts furthers our understanding of issues central to the history of science and medicine: the relationship between court and city, print and manuscript, and theoretical and practical knowledge; the circulation of "secrets" literature; the role of chemical medicine in courts and universities; and the material and economic context of alchemy.
Contents:
* Introduction / Jennifer M. Rampling & Peter M. Jones
-- Part I: Transmission
* 1. Medicine in Graeco-Egyptian Alchemical Collections / Matteo Martelli
* 2. Jabirian Alchemy and Medicine / Sebastien Moureau
* 3. The Concept of Elixir in Western Medieval Alchemy / Michela Pereira
* 4. Alchemy and Medicine in the Ottoman Court / Tuna Artun
-- Part II: Theories of Alchemical Healing
* 5. Radical Moisture in Late Medieval Alchemy / Chiara Crisciani
* 6. The Idea of the Physician in Medieval and Early Modern Alchemy / Jennifer M. Rampling
* 7. Paracelsus / Didier Kahn (translated by Jennifer M. Rampling)
* 8. From Interpretation to Integration: J. B. Van Helmont and his Medico-Alchemical Hippocratism / Georgiana D. Hedesan
-- Part III: Alchemy and Medical Practice
* 9. Alchemical Remedies in Late Medieval England / Peter M. Jones
* 10. The Simple Alchemy of Renaissance Apothecaries / Valentina Pugliano
* 11. Medical Performance and the Alchemy of Plants in the Ventures of Leonard Thurnheisser / Bruce T. Moran
* 12. Chymistry for Ladies? Women and Medical Distillation in Early Modern Europe / Alisha Rankin
-- Part IV: The Status of Chemical Medicine
* 13. Reconciling Galenic and Chemical Medicine / Hiro Hirai
* 14. Chemical Medicine in Early Journals / Margaret D. Garber
* 15. Extracting the Exotic: Global Chymical Medicine in the Seventeenth Century / Hjalmar Fors
* 16. The Chymist and the Physician: Rivalry and Conflict at the Academie Royale des Sciences / Lawrence M. Principe
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