Medicine and the Italian Universities, 1250-1600

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This volume of collected essays deals with medicine in the university world of thirteenth to sixteenth century Italy, discussing both the internal academic milieu of teaching and learning and its relation to the surrounding culture of medieval and Renaissance Italian cities. Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Medical Learning of Albertus Magnus 2. How to Write a Latin Book on Surgery: Organizing Principles and Authorial Devices in Guglielmo da Saliceto and Dino del Garbo 3. Avicenna and the Teaching of Practical Medicine 4. Two Models of Medical Culture, Pietro d’Abano and Taddeo Alderotti 5. The libri morales in the Faculty of Arts and Medicine at Bologna: Bartolomeo da Varignana and the pseudo-Aristotelian Economics 6. The Music of Pulse 7. Medical Scholasticism and the Historian 8. The Physician’s Task: Medical Reputations in Humanist Collective Biographies 9. Renaissance Critiques of Medicine, Physiology, and Anatomy 10. Renaissance Readers and Avicenna’s Organization of Medical Knowledge 11. ‘Remarkable’ Diseases, ‘Remarkable’ Cures, and Personal Experience in Renaissance Medical Texts 12. Vesalius and the Reading of Galen’s Teleology 13. Vesalius and Human Diversity in De humani corporis fabrica 14. Giovanni Argenterio: Medical Innovation, Princely Patronage and Academic Controversy 15. Signs and Evidence: Autopsy and Sanctity in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy Index Education & Society in the Middle Ages & Renaissance