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100 1 $aSiraisi, Nancy G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80095826
245 10 $aHistory, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning /$cNancy G. Siraisi.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $aix, 438 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCultures of knowledge in the early modern world
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 357-420) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tHistory in Medical Literature -- $tPreface to Part 1. A Diagnosis from History -- $g1.$tBodies Past -- $g2.$tHistory and Histories in Medical Texts -- $g3.$tLife Writing and Disciplinary History -- $gPt. 2.$tPhysicians, Civil History, and Antiquarianism -- $tPreface to Part 2. Rival Physician Historians of the Italian Wars -- $g4.$tMilan: Problems of Exemplarity in Medicine and History -- $g5.$tRome: Medicine, Histories, Antiquities, and Public Health -- $g6.$tVienna: Physician Historians and Antiquaries in Court and University -- $g7.$tBeyond Europe -- $tConclusion: Medicine, History, and the Changing Face of Scientific Knowledge.
520 1 $a"A major, pathbreaking 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 then-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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMedicine$xHistory$y16th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010101352
650 0 $aRenaissance.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112806
830 0 $aCultures of knowledge in the early modern world.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007139693
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007010656.html
852 00 $bglx$hR146$i.S57 2007