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Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine (Renaissance Studies Special Issues) by Sandra Cavallo; David Gentilcore; Society for Renaissance Studies (Great Britain) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine (Renaissance Studies Special Issues) about?

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 Review "Reading these pages, we realise how medical historians have often neglected to consider some important spaces where medicine was practised, focusing instead on canonical settings such as hospitals, universities and anatomical theatres. In paying attention to other spaces, all the articles add new meaning to the

Who reads Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine (Renaissance Studies Special Issues)?

Author

Sandra Cavallo; David Gentilcore; Society for Renaissance Studies (Great Britain)

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282116092

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, History, Medicine