Editors: Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca Foscari’ University of Venice) & Fabio Zampieri (University of Padua)
Publisher: L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome, 2021
This volume collects essays dealing with the history of medicine in early modern Europe, and ranging from experiments and practices to the role of erudition in court-medicine, from the study of tarantism and plagues to the uses of drugs, from the collaborations and dissemination of medical knowledge to the epistemological classification of diseases.
The essays aim to reveal the boundless investigation in medical knowledge, ultimately blurring the line of diverse fields, and focus on the extension of medicine as a scientia. Besides the investigation of specific figures and several case studies of early modern medicine, the volume opens with an exploration of the Medical School of Padua and also deals with some important locations that shape the science of medicine, such as anatomical theatres, botanical gardens, and museums.
Contents
Fabrizio Baldassarri & Fabio Zampieri – Scientiae in the History of Medicine: an Introduction
Fabio Zampieri – The University of Padua Medical School from the Origins to the Early Modern Time: A Historical Overview
Cynthia Klestinec – The Anatomy Theater: Towards a Performative History
Florike Egmond – Sixteenth-Century University Gardens in a Medical and Botanical Context
Alberto Zanatta – The Origin and Development of Medical Museum Heritage in Padua
Roberta Ballestriero – The Science and Ethics concerning the Legacy of Human Remains and Historical Collections: The Gordon Museum of Pathology in London
R. Allen Shotwell – Between Text and Practice: The Anatomical Injections of Berengario da Carpi
Maria Kavvadia – Sources and Resources of Court Medicine in Mid-Sixteenth Rome: Erudition as an Epistemological and Ethical Claim
Alessandra Celati – The Experience of the Physician Girolamo Donzellini in the 1575 Venetian Plague: Between Scientia and Heterodoxy
Elisabeth Moreau – Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic Medicine: From Astral Causation to Pharmacology and Treatment
Fabrizio Baldassarri – Elements of Descartes’ Medical Scientia: Books, Medical Schools, and Collaborations
Luca Tonetti – Testing Drugs in Giorgio Baglivi’s Dissertation on Vesicants
Manuel De Carli – Tracing Senguerd’s Footprints: Sciences and Tarantism at Leiden Universtiy (1667-1715)
Pierdaniele Giaretta – Classifications from an Epistemological Point of View with Particular Attention to the Classifications of Diseases
