Author: Kira Robison (University of Tennessee)
Publisher: Brill, 2020
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Names, Dates, and Money
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Hierarchies of Instruction: Traditions of Good Doctoring in Medieval Medical Education
Chapter 2 – Monopolies of Instruction: Retaining and Maintaining Physicians at Bologna
Chapter 3 – Avenues of Instruction: Space and Power in Anatomical Education
Chapter 4 – Audiences of Instruction: Teaching Anatomy through Books and Lecture
Conclusion
Appendix A – Tables for Chapter 2
Appendix B – Inscriptions, Busts, and Statues from before 1530 in the Anatomical Theater of Bologna
Bibliography
Index