Spaces, Objects and Identities in Early Modern Italian MedicineISBN: 978-1-4051-8040-5
Paperback
136 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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