Siraisi The Clock and the Mirror

Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3235-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1915, 378 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Siraisi, Nancy G.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Note to the Reader

Abbreviations

Pt. 1 Cardano's Medical World

Ch. 1 Introduction 3

Ch. 2 Practitioner and Patients 24

Pt. 2 Theory and Practice

Ch. 3 Argument and Experience 43

Ch. 4 Time, Body, Food: The Parameters of Health 70

Pt. 3 The Old and the New

Ch. 5 The Uses of Anatomy 93

Ch. 6 The New Hippocrates 119

Pt. 4 Medical Wonders

Ch. 7 The Hidden and the Marvelous 149

Ch. 8 The Medicine of Dreams 174

Pt. 5 Medical Narratives

Ch. 9 Historia, Narrative, and Medicine 195

Ch. 10 The Physician as Patient 214

Epilogue 225

Notes 231

Bibliography 329

Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy G. Siraisi is Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her books include Avicenna in Renaissance Italy and Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils, both published by Princeton University Press, and Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine (Chicago).