Spaces, objects and identities in early modern Italian medicine
By: edited by Sandra Cavallo and David Gentilcore.
Contributors: Cavallo, Sandra.; Gentilcore, David.; Society for Renaissance Studies (Great Britain)
Series: Renaissance studies special issues
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405180405
Subjects: Medicine -- Italy -- History; History of Medicine -- Italy; History, Modern 1601- -- Italy; Professional Role -- Italy
Other titles: Renaissance studies.
Notes: "Published for the Society for Renaissance Studies."

"First published as volume 21, issue 4 of Renaissance studies."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Miscarriages of apothecary justice: un-separate spaces of work and family in early modern Rome / Elizabeth S. Cohen; title: Pharmacies as centres of communication in early modern Venice / Filippo de Vivo; title: Women, wax and anatomy in the century of things / Lucia Dacome; title: Medical competence, anatomy and the polity in seventeenth-century Rome / Silvia De Renzi; title: Malpighi and the holy body: medical experts and miraculous evidence in seventeenth-century Italy / Gianna Pomata.