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Renaissance medical learning : evolution of a tradition

Title
Renaissance medical learning : evolution of a tradition / edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Nancy G. Siraisi.
Publication
Philadelphia, Pa. : History of Science Society, [1991], ©1991.

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Additional Authors
  • McVaugh, M. R. (Michael Rogers), 1938-
  • Siraisi, Nancy G.
  • History of Science Society.
Description
244 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Osiris, 0369-7827 ; 2nd ser., v. 6 (1990)
Uniform Title
Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser., v. 6.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The medical meaning of physica / Jerome J. Bylebyl -- The construction of a philosophical medicine : exegesis and argument in Salernitan teaching on the soul / Mark D. Jordan -- The nature and limits of medical certitude at early fourteenth-century Montpellier / Michael R. McVaugh -- Jewish appreciation of fourteenth-century scholastic medicine / Luis García-Ballester, Lola Ferre, Eduard Feliu -- History, novelty, and progress in scholastic medicine / Chiara Crisciani -- Theory, everyday practice, and three fifteenth-century physicians / Danielle Jacquart -- Giovanni Argenterio and sixteenth-century medical innovation : between princely patronage and academic controversy / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Girolamo Mercuriale's De modo studendi / Richard J. Durling -- The reception of Fracastoro's theory of contagion : the seed that fell among thorns? / Vivian Nutton.
ISBN
  • 093423518X
  • 9780934235181
  • 0934235171 (pbk.)
  • 9780934235174 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • ocm23686269
  • 23686269
  • SCSB-5399635
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Columbia University Libraries