Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367880750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 236 str.

Silvia de Renzi; Marco Bresadola; Maria Conforti

Opis

This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. It shows how autopsies informed the understanding of pathology of those involved, from medical practitioners' debates to laypeople’s experience of suffering.

Spis treści

Part 1: Framing the Practice 

1. Pathological Dissections in Early Modern Europe: Practice and Knowledge 

Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola and Maria Conforti 

2. Humanist Post-Mortems: Philology and Therapy 

Gionata Liboni 

3. Organising Pathological Knowledge: Théophile Bonet’s Sepulchretum and the Making of a Tradition 

Massimo Rinaldi 

4. The Problems of Anatomia Practica and How to Solve Them: Pathological Dissection Around 1700  

Marco Bresadola 

Part 2: Multiple Pathologies 

5. Post-Mortems, Anatomical Dissections and Humoural Pathology in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries 

Michael Stolberg 

6. Seats and Series: Dissecting Diseases in the Seventeenth Century 

Silvia De Renzi 

7. Visible Signs, Invisible Processes: Explaining Poison in the Late Seventeenth Century 

Maria Conforti  

8. Frederik Ruysch, Surgical Anatomy and the Amsterdam Republic of Medicine 

Rina Knoeff 

Part 3: Productive Dialogues 

9. Pre- and Post-Mortem Inquiries: Assessing Poisoning in the Law Courts of Sixteenth-Century Rome 

Elisa Andretta 

10. Dissecting Pain: Patients, Families and Medical Expertise in Early Modern Germany 

Annemarie Kinzelbach 

11. Therapeutic Post-Mortems in and Around Eighteenth-Century Geneva 

Philip Rieder

O autorze

Silvia De Renzi teaches history of medicine at the Open University, UK.

Marco Bresadola teaches history of science at the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he is director of the MA in science communication.

Maria Conforti teaches history of medicine at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy.