Renaissance medical learning
Subtitle: evolution of a tradition
By: edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Nancy G. Siraisi.
Contributors: Siraisi, Nancy G.; History of Science Society.
Series: Osiris. 2nd ser -- v. 6.; Osiris -- 2nd ser., v. 6.
Publisher: History of Science Society
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Medicine, Medieval.; History of Medicine, Medieval.; History of Medicine, 15th Cent.; History of Medicine, 16th Cent.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: The medical meaning of physica / Jerome J. Bylebyl; The construction of a philosophical medicine : exegesis and argument in Salernitan teaching on the soul / Mark D. Jordan; The nature and limits of medical certitude at early fourteenth-century Montpellier / Michael R. McVaugh; Jewish appreciation of fourteenth-century scholastic medicine / Luis García-Ballester, Lola Ferre, Eduard Feliu; History, novelty, and progress in scholastic medicine / Chiara Crisciani; Theory, everyday practice, and three fifteenth-century physicians / Danielle Jacquart; Giovanni Argenterio and sixteenth-century medical innovation : between princely patronage and academic controversy / Nancy G. Siraisi; Girolamo Mercuriale's De modo studendi / Richard J. Durling; The reception of Fracastoro's theory of contagion : the seed that fell among thorns? / Vivian Nutton.