Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781472463814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 236 str.

Marco Bresadola; Maria Conforti

Opis

Between 1550 and 1750 all over Europe post-mortems were carried out on those who had died of a disease. In households, courts, hospitals and the legal arena, bodies were cut up and observed for a variety of purposes, and yet this practice and the knowledge it generated have virtually disappeared from a historiography that has instead focused either on the anatomical investigations of healthy bodies or on bedside practice. Dissections in the pre-Morgagni period still tend to be seen as failed attempts to create what could only take place with the emergence of pathological anatomy in the Paris clinic. Drawing on recent work by Katharine Park, Nancy Siraisi, Andrew Cunningham and Maria Pia Donato - and bringing together the revisionary work of twelve scholars with complementary approaches - Pathology in Practice fills a substantial gap in the literature and opens a new perspective on core questions in medical history. It does so by focussing on the central question of how post-mortems stimulated, and fed into, debates about the pathological between the humanist rediscovery of the ancient tradition and the emergence of eighteenth-century classifications of diseases."