David Gentilcore is professor of early modern history at the University of Leicester. He has written widely on the social and cultural history of Italy, from popular religion to the practices of medicine and healing. He is the author of
Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy, which was awarded the Jason A. Hannah Medal by the Royal Society of Canada.
6 Ebooks par David Gentilcore
David Gentilcore: Pomodoro!
More than just the beloved base ingredient of so many of our favorite dishes, the tomato has generated both profound riches and controversy in its farming, processing, exchange, and consumption. It i …
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€17.99
Sandra Cavallo & David Gentilcore: Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine
This collection, by an international team of scholars, presents exciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italy which questions the conventional boundaries of medical history. * Br …
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€21.99
David Gentilcore: Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians, or Health Offices (jurisdiction varied from state to state) required charlatans to submit their wa …
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€142.73
Professor David Gentilcore: Food and Health in Early Modern Europe
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of …
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€36.70
Professor David Gentilcore & Dr Matthew Smith: Proteins, Pathologies and Politics
Proteins, Pathologies and Politics presents an international and historical approach to dietary change and health, contrasting current concerns with how issues such as diabetes, cancer, vitamins, sug …
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€37.85
David Gentilcore & Egidio Priani: Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century
This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a foc …
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€3.84
