MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 02962mam a2200385 a 4500
001 2046678
005 20220615192538.0
008 961104t19971997njua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 96046354
020 $a0691011893 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm35911557
035 $9AMS6889CU
035 $a2046678
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dC#P$dOrLoB-B
043 $ae-it---
050 00 $aR520.C32$bS57 1997
082 00 $a610/.92$aB$221
100 1 $aSiraisi, Nancy G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80095826
245 14 $aThe clock and the mirror :$bGirolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine /$cNancy G. Siraisi.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axiv, 361 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [329]-351) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tCardano's Medical World.$gCh. 1.$tIntroduction.$gCh. 2.$tPractitioner and Patients --$gPt. 2.$tTheory and Practice.$gCh. 3.$tArgument and Experience.$gCh. 4.$tTime, Body, Food: The Parameters of Health --$gPt. 3.$tThe Old and the New.$gCh. 5.$tThe Uses of Anatomy.$gCh. 6.$tThe New Hippocrates --$gPt. 4.$tMedical Wonders.$gCh. 7.$tThe Hidden and the Marvelous.$gCh. 8.$tThe Medicine of Dreams --$gPt. 5.$tMedical Narratives.$gCh. 9.$tHistoria, Narrative, and Medicine.$gCh. 10.$tThe Physician as Patient.
520 $aGirolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the complexity and diversity of the Renaissance medical world and the breadth of his own interests. In this book, Nancy Siraisi draws on selected themes in Cardano's medical writings to explore in detail the relation between medicine and wider areas of Renaissance culture.
520 8 $aCardano's medical advice included the suggestion that "the studious man should always have at hand a clock and a mirror" - a clock to keep track of the passage of time and a mirror to observe the changing condition of his body. The remark, which recalls his astrological and autobiographical interests, is emblematic of the many connections between his medicine and his other pursuits.
520 8 $aCardano's philosophical eclecticism, beliefs about occult forces in nature, theories about dreams, and free transactions between academic and popularizing scientific writing also contributed to his medicine.
600 10 $aCardano, Girolamo,$d1501-1576.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50058796
650 0 $aMedicine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083064
650 0 $aMedicine$zItaly$xHistory$y16th century.
600 10 $aCardano, Girolamo,$d1501-1576$xPhilosophy.
651 0 $aItaly$xIntellectual life$y16th century.
852 00 $bsci$hR520.C32$iS57 1997
852 00 $bsci$hR520.C32$iS57 1997