1st Edition
Gabrielle Falloppia, 1522/23-1562 The Life and Work of a Renaissance Anatomist
By Michael Stolberg
Copyright 2023
218 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Renaissance anatomist Gabrielle Falloppia is best known today for his account of the eponymous fallopian tubes but he made numerous other anatomical discoveries as well, was one of the most famous surgeons of his time, and is widely believed to have invented the condom.
Drawing on Falloppia's Observationes anatomicae of 1561 and on dozens of handwritten and published sets of student notes,... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: Biography
Chapter 2: Anatomy
Chapter 3: Surgery
Chapter 4: Materia medica
Chapter 5: Medical practice
Chapter 6: Last years
Chapter 7: Legacy
Sources and Bibliography
Biography
Michael Stolberg was originally trained as a physician. In 1994, he received a PhD in history and philosophy at the University of Munich. From 1995, he held fellowships in Venice, Cambridge, and Munich. Since 2004 he has been chair of the history of medicine at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He has published widely on learned medical theory and practice, the patient experience, and body history in early modern Europe.
