Renaissance Medicine : A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century

This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context. Nutton investigates the changes brought about in medicine by the opening-up of the European world to new drugs and new diseases, such as syphilis and the Sweat, and by the development of printing and more efficient means of communication. Chapters examine how civic institutions such as Health Boards, hospitals, town doctors, and healers became more significant in the fight against epidemic disease, and special attention is given to the role of women and domestic medicine. The final section, on beliefs, explores the revised Galenism of academic medicine, including a new emphasis on anatomy and its most vocal antagonists, Paracelsians. The volume concludes by considering the effect of religious changes on medicine, including the marginalisation, and often expulsion, of non-Christian practitioners. Based on a wide reading of primary sources from literature and art across Europe, __Renaissance Medicine__ is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of medicine and disease in the sixteenth century. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of maps Acknowledgements Introduction Contexts 1 New Lands, New Drugs and New Diseases 2 Protecting the Health of the City 3 Medical Communication: Print and the Post 4 The Rediscovery of Ancient Medicine People 5 The Kaleidoscope of Healing I: Physicians 6 The Kaleidoscope of Healing II: Surgeons, Apothecaries and Outsiders 7 On the Margins of Medical History: Women and Patients Beliefs 8 Learned Medicine 9 Anatomy – the Touchstone of Modernity 10 Paracelsus and Paracelsianism 11 Religion and Medicine 12 Conclusion Chronological table Bibliography Index "This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context. Based on a wide reading of primary sources from literature and art across Europe, Renaissance Medicine is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of medicine and disease in the sixteenth century"-- Proporcionat per l'editor "This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context. Based on a wide reading of primary sources from literature and art across Europe, Renaissance Medicine is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of medicine and disease in the sixteenth century"-- Provided by publisher