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History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning

2007 University of Michigan ;Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2008. ;ISBN: 0472116029 ;ISBN: 9780472116027 ;ISBN: 0472037463 ;ISBN: 9780472037469 ;EISBN: 9780472025480 ;EISBN: 0472025481 ;DOI: 10.3998/mpub.243426 ;OCLC: 743200905 ;LCCallNum: R146

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  • Title:
    History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning
  • Author: Siraisi, Nancy G
  • Subjects: 16th century ; Health Sciences ; HISTORY ; MEDICAL ; Medicine ; Medicine--History--16th century ; Renaissance
  • Description: A major, path-breaking work, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi's examination into the intersections of medically trained authors and history in the period 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate disciplinary traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. Far from their contributions being a mere footnote in the historical record, medical writers had extensive involvement in the reading, production, and shaping of historical knowledge during this important period. With remarkably detailed scholarship, Siraisi investigates doctors' efforts to explore the legacies handed down to them from ancient medical and anatomical writings and the difficult reconciliations this required between the authority of the ancient world and the discoveries of the modern. She also studies the ways in which sixteenth-century medical authors wrote history, both in their own medical texts and in more general historical works. In the course of her study, Siraisi finds that what allowed medical writers to become so fully engaged in the writing of history was their general humanistic background, their experience of history through the field of medicine's past, and the tools that the writing of history offered to the development of a rapidly evolving profession.
  • Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
  • Creation Date: 2010
  • Format: 456
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0472116029
    ISBN: 9780472116027
    ISBN: 0472037463
    ISBN: 9780472037469
    EISBN: 9780472025480
    EISBN: 0472025481
    DOI: 10.3998/mpub.243426
    OCLC: 743200905
    LCCallNum: R146
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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