Logic, signs, and nature in the Renaissance
Subtitle: the case of learned medicine
By: Ian Maclean.
Series: Ideas in context -- 62
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Medicine -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History -- 16th century.; Medical education -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.; Medicine -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.; Medical education -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.; Renaissance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-396) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction I; title: I Learned medicine I500-I630 14; title: I.I Introduction 14; title: 1.2 Universities in the broader medical context 15; title: 1.3 Humanism 18; title: I.4 New developments 22; title: 1.5 Medicine in the universities 29; title: 1.6 The state of medicine in 1630 33; title: 2 The transmission of medical knowledge 36; title: 2.1 Introduction 36; title: 2.2 Modes of diffusion 41; title: 2.3 Book fairs, authors and publishers 46; title: 2.4 Format and genre 55; title: 2.5 Bibliographies and libraries 63; title: 2.6 Conclusions 66; title: 3 The discipline of medicine 68; title: 3.I Introduction 68; title: 3.2 Art and science 70; title: 3.3 Medical sects 76; title: 3.4 Medicine and other discourses: natural philosophy 80; title: 3.5 Medicine and other discourses: law 84; title: 3.6 Medicine and other discourses: theology 87; title: 3.7 The professional doctor 92; title: 3.8 Conclusion: the doctor as master and servant of his art 99; title: 4 The arts course: grammar, logic and dialectics o10; title: 4.1 Introduction fox; title: 4.2 Linguistic issues 104; title: 4.3 Demonstrative logic 114; title: 4.4 Art and dialectics 128; title: 5 The arts course: signs, induction, mathematics, experientia 148; title: 5.1 Signs 148; title: 5.2 Beyond logic: geometry, proportion, quantity 17; title: 5.3 Authority, reason, experience 191; title: 5.4 Pedagogical method and the method of discovery 200; title: 5.5 Conclusions 203; title: 6 Interpreting medical texts 206; title: 6.I Authority and disauthorisation 206; title: 6.2 Issues of text 213; title: 6.3 Authorial issues 217; title: 6.4 Issues of readers and reading 221; title: 6.5 Conclusions 231; title: 7 The content of medical thought 234; title: 7.1 Introduction 234; title: 7.2 Universal and particular nature 236; title: 7.3 Nature as producer and product 247; title: 7.4 Medicine's terms of art: naturals and non-naturals 251; title: 7.5 Praeter naturam: diseases 259; title: 7.6 Praeter naturam: monsters and mirabilia 269; title: 7.7 Conclusions 273; title: 8 The doctrine of signs 276; title: 8.1 Semiology and medicine 276; title: 8.2 Medical signs 281; title: 8.3 The sign distributed 285; title: 8.4 Pathognomonic signs: syndromes of signs 288; title: 8.5 Signs as evidence: certainty and uncertainty290; title: 8.6 Signs and time: anamnesis, diagnosis, prognosis 293; title: 8.7 Indications 306; title: 8.8 Conjectural arts or sciences 315; title: 8.9 Conclusions: probability and the conjunction of signs 327; title: Postscript 333.