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Darrera modificació: 2019-11-14
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Savoia, Paolo, "Skills, knowledge, and status: the career of an Early Modern Italian surgeon", Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 93/1 (2019), 27-54.
- Resum
- This article analyzes the career of Giovanni Battista Cortesi (1552–1643)—the son of a poor tailor who started his career as barber and steam bathattendant and became university professor at Bologna and Messina—and placesit in the context of the profession of surgery in early modern Italy. The articleinvestigates how a surgeon had to establish close relationships with universities,civic authorities, wealthy upper-class patients, hospitals as sites of clinical educationand acquisition of manual skills, the printing industry and the book market, andstudents. Moreover, the article explores the fluidity of professional and culturalboundaries between learned and empirical knowledge from the perspective of agraduate surgeon who was not supposed to be. Finally, the article aims at describ-ing the figure of the “graduate surgeon,” typical of the Italian medical landscape.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Universitats i ensenyament
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/38709420/Skills_Knowledge_ ...
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