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 w...

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.