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2018 |
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2018-01 |
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2017-12-22 |
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Between 1500 and 1750 cadavers were frequently dissected for a variety of reasons,
including to find out the causes of death and disease. Historians have focused on
the social, religious and political goals of the practice, but we still lack an examination
of how it intersected with medical knowledge. This chapter examines the reasons for
this omission and argues that building a long view of how post-mortems informed the
understanding of pathology opens new perspectives on critical aspects of early modern
medicine. In particular, debates on the pathological emerge within the humoral tradition
that were much more dynamic than previously thought, including on the seat of diseases.
Fresh accounts can be produced of the relationships between pathology and anatomy
and a new map drawn of physicians’ responses to the epistemological challenges created
by the evidence of cadavers, for example how to generalise pathological knowledge.
Post-mortems can also contribute significantly to recent reassessment of the boundaries
between practitioners and how medical and lay knowledge interacted in relation to
the experience of illness and concepts of diseases. |
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De Renzi, Silvia ; Bresadola, Marco and Conforti, Maria (2018). Pathological dissections
in early modern Europe: practice and knowledge. In: De Renzi, Silvia; Bresadola, Marco
and Conforti, Maria eds. Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early
Modern Europe. The History of Medicine in Context. London: Routledge, pp. 3–19. |
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De Renzi, Silvia ; Bresadola, Marco and Conforti, Maria (2017). Pathological dissections
in early modern Europe: practice and knowledge. In: De Renzi, Silvia; Bresadola, Marco
and Conforti, Maria eds. Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early
Modern Europe. The History of Medicine in Context. London: Routledge, pp. 3–19.
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De Renzi, Silvia ; Bresadola, Marco and Conforti, Maria (2018). Pathological dissections
in early modern Europe: practice and knowledge. In: De Renzi, Silvia; Bresadola, Marco
and Conforti, Maria eds. Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early
Modern Europe. The History of Medicine in Context. London: Routledge, pp. 3–19.
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ext-a75de4357e5533e572a9bc120d4e6615 |
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Title |
Pathological dissections in early modern Europe: practice and knowledge |
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