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Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of
medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the
Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he
describes the prevailing notions of illness in the era, diagnostic
and therapeutic procedures, the doctor-patient relationship, and
home and lay medicine.
This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the
historical roots of modern palliative care in Europe to the rise of
the hospice movement in the 1960s. The author discusses largely
forgotten premodern concepts like cura palliativa and euthanasia
medica and describes, how patients and physicians experienced and
dealt with terminal illness. He traces the origins of hospitals for
incurable and dying patients and follows the long history of
ethical debates on issues like truth-telling and the intentional
shortening of the dying patients' lives and the controversies they
sparked between physicians and patients. An eye opener for anyone
interested in the history of ethical decision making regarding
terminal care of critically ill patients.
Renaissance anatomist Gabrielle Falloppia is best known today for
his account of the eponymous fallopian tubes but he made numerous
other anatomical discoveries as well, was one of the most famous
surgeons of his time, and is widely believed to have invented the
condom. Drawing on Falloppia's Observationes anatomicae of 1561 and
on dozens of handwritten and published sets of student notes, this
book not only looks at Falloppia's anatomical lectures and
demonstrations. It also studies Falloppia's work on surgical topics
- including the French disease and cosmetic surgery - on thermal
waters, and on pharmacology. Last but not least, it uses student
notes and the letters of contemporary scholars to throw a new light
on Falloppia's biography, on his very special relationship with the
botanist Melchior Wieland, who lived in his house for several
years, and on his conflicts with his fellow professors in Padua,
one of whom, Bassiano Landi, was murdered just ten days after his
funeral - by Falloppia's disciples, as some believed. Written by
one of the leading scholars in the field of early modern medicine,
this book will appeal to all those interested in the teaching and
practice of anatomy, surgery, and pharmacology in the Renaissance.
Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the
urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical
practice and in the lives of ordinary people. Widely considered as
the most reliable way to diagnose diseases and pregnancies it was
taught at the best universities. Leading physicians prided
themselves on their mastery in this field. Countless medical
writings were dedicated to uroscopy and artists represented it in
hundreds of illustrations and paintings. Based on a wide range of
textual and visual sources, such as autobiographies, court records,
medical treatises and genre painting, this book offers the first
comprehensive study of the place of uroscopy in early modern
medicine, culture and society and of the - gradually changing -
ways in which medical practitioners, lay persons and, last but not
least, artists perceived and used it.
This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the
historical roots of modern palliative care in Europe to the rise of
the hospice movement in the 1960s. The author discusses largely
forgotten premodern concepts like cura palliativa and euthanasia
medica and describes, how patients and physicians experienced and
dealt with terminal illness. He traces the origins of hospitals for
incurable and dying patients and follows the long history of
ethical debates on issues like truth-telling and the intentional
shortening of the dying patients' lives and the controversies they
sparked between physicians and patients. An eye opener for anyone
interested in the history of ethical decision making regarding
terminal care of critically ill patients.
Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the
urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical
practice and in the lives of ordinary people. Widely considered as
the most reliable way to diagnose diseases and pregnancies it was
taught at the best universities. Leading physicians prided
themselves on their mastery in this field. Countless medical
writings were dedicated to uroscopy and artists represented it in
hundreds of illustrations and paintings. Based on a wide range of
textual and visual sources, such as autobiographies, court records,
medical treatises and genre painting, this book offers the first
comprehensive study of the place of uroscopy in early modern
medicine, culture and society and of the - gradually changing -
ways in which medical practitioners, lay persons and, last but not
least, artists perceived and used it.
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