Pathology in Practice

Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe

Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola, Maria Conforti (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-88075-0 (ISBN)

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This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. It shows how autopsies informed the understanding of pathology of those involved, from medical practitioners' debates to laypeople’s experience of suffering.

Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. Drawing on different approaches and on sources as varied as notes taken at the dissection table, legal records and learned publications, the chapters explore how autopsies informed the understanding of pathology of all those involved. With a broad geography, including Rome, Amsterdam and Geneva, the book recaptures the lost worlds of physicians, surgeons, patients, families and civic authorities as they used corpses to understand diseases and make sense of suffering. The evidence from post-mortems was not straightforward, but between 1500 and 1750 medical practitioners rose to the challenge, proposing various solutions to the difficulties they encountered and creating a remarkable body of knowledge. The book shows the scope and diversity of this tradition and how laypeople contributed their knowledge and expectations to the wide-ranging exchanges stimulated by the opening of bodies.

Silvia De Renzi teaches history of medicine at the Open University, UK. Marco Bresadola teaches history of science at the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he is director of the MA in science communication. Maria Conforti teaches history of medicine at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy.

Part 1: Framing the Practice

1. Pathological Dissections in Early Modern Europe: Practice and Knowledge

Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola and Maria Conforti

2. Humanist Post-Mortems: Philology and Therapy

Gionata Liboni

3. Organising Pathological Knowledge: Théophile Bonet’s Sepulchretum and the Making of a Tradition

Massimo Rinaldi

4. The Problems of Anatomia Practica and How to Solve Them: Pathological Dissection Around 1700

Marco Bresadola

Part 2: Multiple Pathologies

5. Post-Mortems, Anatomical Dissections and Humoural Pathology in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Michael Stolberg

6. Seats and Series: Dissecting Diseases in the Seventeenth Century

Silvia De Renzi

7. Visible Signs, Invisible Processes: Explaining Poison in the Late Seventeenth Century

Maria Conforti

8. Frederik Ruysch, Surgical Anatomy and the Amsterdam Republic of Medicine

Rina Knoeff

Part 3: Productive Dialogues

9. Pre- and Post-Mortem Inquiries: Assessing Poisoning in the Law Courts of Sixteenth-Century Rome

Elisa Andretta

10. Dissecting Pain: Patients, Families and Medical Expertise in Early Modern Germany

Annemarie Kinzelbach

11. Therapeutic Post-Mortems in and Around Eighteenth-Century Geneva

Philip Rieder

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	The History of Medicine in Context
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Pathologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-367-88075-X / 036788075X
ISBN-13	978-0-367-88075-0 / 9780367880750
Zustand	Neuware