Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this c

How much did the Renaissance change medical history and public health? Did landmark developments benefit the everyday lives of ordinary people? This book looks

This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intel

This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intel

A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the inters