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Making and marketing medicine in Renaissance Florence
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ISBN: 9789042031562 9789042031579 9042031573 1283009269 9781283009263 9786613009265 6613009261 9042031565 Year: 2011 Volume: 89 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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What did you do when you fell ill in fifteenth-century Florence? How did you get the medicines that you needed at a price you could afford? What would you find when you entered an apothecary’s shop? This richly detailed study of the Speziale al Giglio in Florence provides surprising answers, demonstrating the continued importance of highly personalised medical practice late into the fifteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, it shows how personal relationships and mutual trust, rather than market forces, made payment possible even for those with limited incomes. Examining the spaces, people and products involved, Making and Marketing Medicine investigates the roles played by sociability, information networks and regulation in creating communities as well as in promoting health in Renaissance Italy.

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History of Italy --- History of human medicine --- anno 1400-1499 --- Florence --- Drugstores --- Public health --- Pharmaceutical Preparations --- Drug Prescriptions --- History, 15th Century --- History, 16th Century --- Marketing --- Pharmacies --- History --- history --- Italy. --- E-books --- 16th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 16th Cent. History of Medicine --- 16th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 16th Century --- History of Medicine, 16th Cent. --- History, Sixteenth Century --- Medical History, 16th Cent. --- Medicine, 16th Cent. --- 16th Century History --- 16th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 16th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 16th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 16th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 16th --- Century Histories, Sixteenth --- Century History, 16th --- Century History, Sixteenth --- Histories, 16th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 16th Century --- Histories, Sixteenth Century --- History, 16th Cent. (Medicine) --- Sixteenth Century Histories --- Sixteenth Century History --- 15th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 15th Cent. History of Medicine --- 15th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 15th Century --- History of Medicine, 15th Cent. --- History, Fifteenth Century --- Medical History, 15th Cent. --- Medicine, 15th Cent. --- 15th Century History --- 15th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 15th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 15th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 15th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 15th --- Century Histories, Fifteenth --- Century History, 15th --- Century History, Fifteenth --- Fifteenth Century Histories --- Fifteenth Century History --- Histories, 15th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 15th Century --- Histories, Fifteenth Century --- History, 15th Cent. (Medicine) --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Apothecaries (Drugstores) --- Apothecary shops --- Chemists' shops --- Drug stores --- Pharmaceutical services --- Stores, Retail --- Sardinia --- Drugstores. --- Public health. --- 1400 - 1499 --- Italy --- Forence --- Medicine --- Health Workforce


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Under the skin : tattoos, scalps, and the contested language of bodies in early America
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ISBN: 9781512823172 9781512823165 1512823171 Year: 2022 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers. These permanent and painful marks could act as signs of alliance or signs of conflict, producing a complex bodily archive of cross-cultural entanglement.Indigenous body modification practices were adopted and transformed by colonial powers, making tattooing and scalping key forms of cultural and political contestation in early America. Although these bodily practices were quite distinct—one a painful but generally voluntary sign of accomplishment and affiliation, the other a violent assault on life and identity—they were linked by growing colonial perceptions that both were crucial elements of “Nativeness.” Tracing the transformation of concepts of bodily integrity, personal and collective identities, and the sources of human difference, Under the Skin investigates both the lived physical experience and the contested metaphorical power of early American bodies.Struggling for power on battlefields, in diplomatic gatherings, and in intellectual exchanges, Native Americans and Anglo-Americans found their physical appearances dramatically altered by their interactions with one another. Contested ideas about the nature of human and societal difference translated into altered appearances for many early Americans. In turn, scars and symbols on skin prompted an outpouring of stories as people debated the meaning of such marks. Perhaps paradoxically, individuals with culturally ambiguous or hybrid appearances prompted increasing efforts to insist on permanent bodily identity. By the late eighteenth century, ideas about the body, phenotype, and culture were increasingly articulated in concepts of race. Yet even as the interpretations assigned to inscribed flesh shifted, fascination with marked bodies remained.

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