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Renaissance Surgeons - Learning and Expertise in the Age of Print (Paperback)
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Renaissance Surgeons - Learning and Expertise in the Age of Print (Paperback)
Series: The Body in the City
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This book examines the lives, careers, and publications of a group
of Spanish Renaissance surgeons as exemplars of both the surgical
renaissance occurring across Europe and of the unique context of
Spain. In the sixteenth century, European surgeons forged new
identities as learned experts who combined university medical
degrees with manual skills and practical experience. No longer
merely apprentice-trained craftsmen engaged only with healing the
exterior wounds and rashes of the body, these learned surgeons
actively engaged with the epistemic shifts of the sixteenth
century, including new forms of knowledge construction, based in
empiricism, and knowledge circulation, based in printing. These
surgeons have long been overshadowed by the innovative work of
anatomists and botanists but were participants in the same
intellectual currents reshaping many aspects of knowledge. Active
in communities across both Castile and Aragon, learned surgeons
formed an intellectual community of practitioners and scholars who
helped reshape surgical knowledge and practice. This book provides
an overview of the Spanish learned surgeons, known as medicos y
cirujanos, who were influential in universities, on battlefields,
at court, and in private practice. It argues that the surgeons'
larger significance rests in their collective identity as part of
the broader intellectual shift to empiricism and innovation of the
Renaissance. Renaissance Surgeons: Learning and Expertise in the
Age of Print is essential reading for upper-level students and
scholars of the history of medicine and early modern Spain.
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