Medicine and the Italian universities, 1250-1600 / / Nancy G. Siraisi.

• Superior document: Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; Volume 12
• VerfasserIn: Siraisi, Nancy G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume collects essays published in the last 20 years. They deal with medicine in the university world of thirteenth to sixteenth century Italy, discussing both the internal academic milieu of teaching and learning and its relation to the lively urban social, economic, and cultural context in which medieval and Renaissance Italian university medicine grew up. Topics covered include the complex interaction of continuity and change in the transition from scholastic to humanistic medicine; humanist presentations of medical lives; the activities of physicians who moved among the worlds of academic learning, princely courts, and city life; the teaching of practical medicine; the relations of medical and surgical learning and practice; and the influence on medical writing of a variety of elements in the broader surrounding intellectual culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Medical Learning of Albertus Magnus -- 2. How to Write a Latin Book on Surgery: Organizing Principles and Authorial Devices in Guglielmo da Saliceto and Dino del Garbo -- 3. Avicenna and the Teaching of Practical Medicine -- 4. Two Models of Medical Culture, Pietro d'Abano and Taddeo Alderotti -- 5. The libri morales in the Faculty of Arts and Medicine at bologna: Bartolomeo da Varginana and the pseudo-Aristotelian Economics -- 6. The Music of Pulse -- 7. Medical Scholasticism and the Historian -- 8. The Physician's Task: Medical Reputations in Humanist Collective Biographies -- 9. Renaissance Critiques of Medicine, Physiology, and Anatomy -- 10. Renaissance Readers and Avicenna's Organization of Medical Knowledge -- 11. 'Remarkable' Diseases, 'Remarkable' Cures, and personal Experience in Renaissance Medical Texts -- 12. Vesalius and the Reading of Galen's Teleology -- 13. Vesalius and Human Diversity in De humani corporis fabrica -- 14. Giovanni Argenterio: Medical Innovation, Princely Patronage and Academic Controversy -- 15. Signs and Evidence: Autopsy and Sanctity in Late sixteenth-Century Italy -- Index.