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This book examines the relationship of medicine to those intellectual and social changes which historians call the Renaissance. The contributors describe how the whole range of medicine, from practical therapeutics to surgery, anatomy and pharmacy, was developing. Some important questions about the nature of medicine as it was taught and practised are raised. These include the continuing vigour of Arabic and scholastic medicine, how this was reconciled with the renaissance love of all things Greek and the nature of medicine in different parts of Europe. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in their subjects and are based on contributions read at a meeting called for the purpose in Cambridge and supported by the Wellcome Trust.
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This book examines the relationship of medicine to those intellectual and social changes which historians call the Renaissance. The contributors describe how the whole range of medicine, from practical therapeutics to surgery, anatomy and pharmacy, was developing.
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The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Some spots of foxing to page edges.; xvi, 349 pages. Papered boards. Page dimensions: 228 x 150mm. "The links between medicine and the rest of renaissance intellectual life were intimate. Together with theology and law, medicine stood at the top of the university curriculum in the northern universities, requiring as a precondition a full arts education, which included the scientific elements of natural philosophy on which medicine was based." - from the editors' Introduction. Twelve chapters, by various contributors, including: "Aristotle among the physicians" by C. B. Schmitt; "Humanist surgery" by V. Nutton; "Explorations in renaissance writings on the practice of medicine" by A. Wear; "The 'Paris Hippocratics': teaching and research in Paris in the second half of the sixteenth century" by Iain M. Lonie; "The generation of disease: occult causes and diseases of the total substance" by L. Deer Richardson. [Seller Ref: TaylorCol] ; 8vo. Seller Inventory # 14283
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