2021 - L'Erma di Bretschneider
Chapitre
Digital Version
Télécharger | Copier/coller | Impression
Sources and resources of court medicine in Mid-Sixteenth Rome : erudition as an epistemological and ethical claim
P. 171-187
- In his medical book entitled De arte gymnastica (Venice, 1569), the humanist physician Girolamo Mercuriale of Forlì (1530-1606) noted that the human body is the focus of several disciplines. De arte gymnastica is a medical treatise of exceptional erudition that combines medical with broad philological, historical, and antiquarian learning. Mercuriale put together his De arte gymnastica during his residence in Rome (in the years 1562-1569), where he served as the personal physician of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), one of the most powerful Churchmen and richest patrons at the time. In his medical treatise Mercuriale attempts to recover the Greco-Roman gymnastics in a medical context, as the “true” medical gymnastics. He promotes the medical gymnastics as an ideal method of medical treatment for contemporary use, with both preventive and curative value based on its beneficial role in the maintenance and obtainment of health. [Publisher's text]
-
Informations
-
Dans le même 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
