Sandra Cavallo & David Gentilcore 
Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine [PDF ebook] 

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.

* Brings together historians of medicine and scholars of
different backgrounds who are re-visiting the field from new
perspectives and with the support of innovative questions and
unexplored sources

* Explores crucial areas of intersection between the territory of
medicine and that of law, politics, religion, art and material
culture and highlights the connections between these apparently
separate fields

* Challenges our understanding of what we regard as medical
activities, medical identities, spaces and objects

* Addresses the study of medical careers, medical identities and
spaces where medical activities were performed e.g. apothecary
shops, courtrooms, convents and museums

Table des matières

Introduction (Sandra Cavallo, Royal Holloway, University of London
and David Gentilcore, University of Leicester).

1. Miscarriages of Apothecary Justice: Un-separate Spaces of
Work and Family in Early Modern Rome (Elizabeth S. Cohen, York
University).

2. Pharmacies as Centres of Communication in Early Modern Venice
(Filippo de Vivo, Birkbeck, University of London).

3. Women, Wax and Anatomy in the ‘Century of Things’
(Lucia Dacome, Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS) and University of
Toronto).

4. Medical Competence, Anatomy and the Polity in
Seventeenth-Century Rome (Silvia De Renzi, The Open
University).

5. Malpighi and the Holy Body: Medical Experts and Miraculous
Evidence in Seventeenth-Century Italy (Gianna Pomata, University of
Bologna).

Index.

A propos de l’auteur

Sandra Cavallo is Reader in Early Modern History at Royal
Holloway, University of London.

David Gentilcore is Reader in History at the University
of Leicester.