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Renaissance medical learning : evolution of a tradition

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

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Additional authors
  1. McVaugh, M. R. (Michael Rogers), 1938-
  2. Siraisi, Nancy G.
  3. History of Science Society.
Description
  1. 244 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series statement
  1. Osiris, 0369-7827 ; 2nd ser., v. 6 (1990)
Uniform title
  1. Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser., v. 6.
Subject
  1. Medicine, Medieval
  2. History, Medieval
  3. History, 15th Century
  4. History, 16th Century
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.