2021 - L'Erma di Bretschneider
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The anatomy theater : towards a performative history
P. 69-87
- Inside the anatomy theaters of the early modern period, professors pursued many pedagogical goals, introducing students to the subject of anatomy, investigating a certain region or function, and so forth. But what difference did it make if the anatomy lesson was conducted in a theater rather than the back room of a pharmacy, in a hospital, or in the private chambers of a professor? While there are many historical changes to document in the study of anatomy and in the form and content of the anatomy demonstration, this essay argues that the anatomy theater played a significant regulatory role in the educational and cultural history of anatomy. Focusing on the University of Padua's theater, this essay develops the theme of regulation—in statutes and decrees as well as descriptions of particular demonstrations—in order to reconstruct the performative history of the theater. [Publisher's text]
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In the same volume
- Foreword
- Notes on contributors
- Scientiae in the history of medicine : an introduction
- The University of Padua Medical School from the origins to the Early Modern Time : a historical overview
- The anatomy theater : towards a performative history
- Sixteenth-century university gardens in a medical and botanical context
- The origin and development of medical museum heritage in Padua
- The science and ethics concerning the legacy of human remains and historical collections : the Gordon Museum of Pathology in London
- Between text and practice : the anatomical injections of Berengario da Carpi
- Sources and resources of court medicine in Mid-Sixteenth Rome : erudition as an epistemological and ethical claim
- The experience of the physician Girolamo Donzellini in the 1575 Venetian plague : between Scientia and heterodoxy
- Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic medicine : from astral causation to pharmacology and treatment
- Elements of Descartes' medical Scientia : books, medical schools, and collaborations
- Testing drugs in Giorgio Baglivi's dissertation on Vesicants
- Tracing Senguerd's footprints : sciences and tarantism at Leiden Universtiy (1667-1715)
- Classifications from an epistemological point of view with particular attention to the classifications of diseases
- List of abstracts