| Description |
1 online resource (468 p.) |
| Series |
Clio Medica Ser |
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Clio Medica Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Bodies of Knowledge in the Late Renaissance -- 1 Following Galen to Find the Seats and Causes of Disease -- 2 Disease Displayed in Private, Public, and Clinical Anatomies -- 3 Reconstructing Intellectual Microcosms -- 4 Pedagogy and Practices -- 5 Making Medicines from Books, Gardens, and Chymistry -- 6 Experience, Empiricism, and Experiment -- 7 Plan of Chapters -- 1. Contexts for the Medical Curriculum -- 1 Medicine for a Young Republic in the 1575 Founding -- 2 University, City, State |
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3 The Harvest of Trials from Earlier Sixteenth-Century Academic Medicine -- 4 Experience and Experiment in Early Leiden Mixed Mathematics and Engineering -- 5 The Humanist, Practical Education of Medical Professors -- 6 Early Medical Curricula -- 7 Conclusions -- 2. Ideals of Learning and Reading -- 1 Ideals of Curing Bodies by Reason and Experience -- 2 The Virtues of Disputation for Learning and Exams -- 3 Study Guides for Sharpening the Ingenium (Wit) of the Brain -- 4 Student Life and the Vices of Embodied Learners -- 5 Conclusions -- 3. Lecturing about Philosophical Bodies |
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1 Core Philosophy and Theory -- 2 Basic Principles vs. Hope for Certainty -- 3 Galen on Faculties, Matter, and Souls -- 4 Galen among Ancient Sources on "Powers" or Faculties -- 5 Early Modern Medical Discussions of Faculties -- 6 Conclusions -- 4. Learning to Make Medicines: Reading, Viewing, Tasting, and Testing -- 1 Fire and Transmutation -- 2 Chymical Teaching in the Lecture Hall -- 3 Cultivating Knowledge and Medicinal Simples in the Garden -- 4 Naturalists Knowing Plants by Experience and Experiment -- 5 God's Medicines and Models of Making Trials |
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6 Galen's Models for Knowing Drugs and Making Trials -- 7 Medieval and Early Modern Debates over Sensing and Knowing Medicinal Faculties -- 8 Making and Knowing Medicines with Johannes Heurnius' New Method -- 9 Conclusions -- 5. Knowing and Treating the Diseased Body -- 1 The Malfunctioning Seats of Diseases -- 2 Seats of Diseases after Galen -- 3 Knowing Material and Other Causes of Diseases -- 4 Teaching Students to Treat the Faulty Part -- 5 Localizing Diseases in Students' Disputations -- 6 Conclusions -- 6. Disease Displayed in Public and Private Anatomies |
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1 Anatomy Serving the Practice of Physicians and Surgeons -- 2 Piety and Decorum -- 3 Disease Displayed in Public and Private Anatomies -- 4 Generation and Murder -- 5 Cutting to the Causes of Disease and Death -- 6 Conclusions -- 7. Innovation and Clinical Anatomies -- 1 The Pulse Controversy and Anatomical Innovation -- 2 Early Clinical Training and Anatomies -- 3 Founding Regular Bedside Learning at the Hospital -- 4 Causes, Histories, and Therapy Displayed in Diseased Bodies -- 5 Diseases and Remedies from Across the Dutch Empire |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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6 Tracking Diseases by Clinical Signs and Post-Mortem Evidence |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004515727 |
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9004515720 |
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