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Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe book cover

1st Edition

Pathology in Practice Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe

Edited By Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola, Maria Conforti Copyright 2018
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. Drawing on different approaches and on sources as varied as notes taken at the dissection table, legal records and... Read more

Part 1: Framing the Practice 



1. Pathological Dissections in Early Modern Europe: Practice and Knowledge 



Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola and Maria Conforti 



2. Humanist Post-Mortems: Philology and Therapy 



Gionata Liboni 



3. Organising Pathological Knowledge: Théophile Bonet’s Sepulchretum and the Making of a Tradition 



Massimo Rinaldi 



4. The Problems of Anatomia Practica and How to Solve Them: Pathological Dissection Around 1700  



Marco Bresadola 



Part 2: Multiple Pathologies 



5. Post-Mortems, Anatomical Dissections and Humoural Pathology in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries 



Michael Stolberg 



6. Seats and Series: Dissecting Diseases in the Seventeenth Century 



Silvia De Renzi 



7. Visible Signs, Invisible Processes: Explaining Poison in the Late Seventeenth Century 



Maria Conforti  



8. Frederik Ruysch, Surgical Anatomy and the Amsterdam Republic of Medicine 



Rina Knoeff 



Part 3: Productive Dialogues 



9. Pre- and Post-Mortem Inquiries: Assessing Poisoning in the Law Courts of Sixteenth-Century Rome 



Elisa Andretta 



10. Dissecting Pain: Patients, Families and Medical Expertise in Early Modern Germany 



Annemarie Kinzelbach 



11. Therapeutic Post-Mortems in and Around Eighteenth-Century Geneva 



Philip Rieder

Biography

Silvia De Renzi teaches history of medicine at the Open University, UK.



Marco Bresadola teaches history of science at the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he is director of the MA in science communication.



Maria Conforti teaches history of medicine at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy.

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