Healers in the making : : students, physicians, and medical education in medieval Bologna (1250-1550) / / by Kira Robison.
"Healers in the Making investigates medical instruction at the University of Bologna using the lens of practical medicine, focusing on both anatomical and surgical instruction and showing that teaching medicine between the late thirteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries was a consciously constructe...
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| Superior document: | The medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 126 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] 2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval Mediterranean ;
Volume 126. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 199 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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| Summary: | "Healers in the Making investigates medical instruction at the University of Bologna using the lens of practical medicine, focusing on both anatomical and surgical instruction and showing that teaching medicine between the late thirteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries was a consciously constructed and vigorous project that required ongoing local political and cultural negotiations beyond books and curriculum. Using municipal, institutional, and medical texts, Kira Robison examines the outward structures of academic and civic power involved in the formation of medical authority and illuminates the innovations in practical medical pedagogy that occurred during this era. In this way, Robison re-examines academic medicine, the professors, and students, returning them to the context of the medical marketplace within a dynamic and flourishing urban landscape"-- |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004444114 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Kira Robison. |