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Crucial interventions : an illustrated treatise on the principles & practice of nineteenth-century surgery
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ISBN: 9780500518106 0500518106 Year: 2015 Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson,

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Outside back cover "The nineteenth century saw a complete transformation of the practice and reputation of surgery. 'Crucial interventions' follows its increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing from the very best examples of rare surgical textbooks with a focus on the extraordinary visual materials of the mid-nineteenth century. Unnerving and graphic, yet beautifully rendered, these fascinating illustrations include step-by-step surgical techniques paired with medical instruments and painted depictions of operations in progress. Arranged for the layman from head to toe, and accompanied by an authoritative, eloquent and inspiring narrative from medical historian Richard Barnett, author of 2014 bestseller 'The sick rose, 'Crucial interventions' is a unique and captivating book on one of the world's most mysterious and macabre professions, and promises to be another success."


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La scuola medica salernitana : gli autori e i testi : convegno internazionale, Università degli studi di Salerno, 3-5 novembre 2004
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ISBN: 9788884502322 8884502322 Year: 2007 Volume: 1 Publisher: Firenze : SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo,

Not of a woman born: representations of Caesarean birth in Medieval and Renaissance culture
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ISBN: 0801422922 1501740482 0801499747 1501740474 Year: 1991 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

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"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"-the terms designating those born by Caesarean section in medieval and Renaissance Europe were mysterious and ambiguous. Examining representations of Caesarean birth in legend and art and tracing its history in medical writing, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski addresses the web of religious, ethical, and cultural questions concerning abdominal delivery in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Not of Woman Born increases our understanding of the history of the medical profession, of medical iconography, and of ideas surrounding "unnatural" childbirth.Blumenfeld-Kosinski compares texts and visual images in order to trace the evolution of Caesarean birth as it was perceived by the main actors involved-pregnant women, medical practitioners, and artistic or literary interpreters. Bringing together medical treatises and texts as well as hitherto unexplored primary sources such as manuscript illuminations, she provides a fresh perspective on attitudes toward pregnancy and birth in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; the meaning and consequences of medieval medicine for women as both patients and practitioners, and the professionalization of medicine. She discusses writings on Caesarean birth from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when Church Councils ordered midwives to perform the operation if a mother died during childbirth in order that the child might be baptized; to the fourteenth century, when the first medical text, Bernard of Gordon's Lilium medicinae, mentioned the operation; up to the gradual replacement of midwives by male surgeons in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Not of Woman Born offers the first close analysis of Frarnois Rousset's 1581 treatise on the operation as an example of sixteenth-century medical discourse. It also considers the ambiguous nature of Caesarean birth, drawing on accounts of such miraculous examples as the birth of the Antichrist. An appendix reviews the complex etymological history of the term "Caesarean section."Richly interdisciplinary, Not of Woman Born will enliven discussions of the controversial issues surrounding Caesarean delivery today. Medical, social, and cultural historians interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, historians, literary scholars, midwives, obstetricians, nurses, and others concerned with women's history will want to read it.


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Picturing the book of nature
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ISBN: 1283550296 9786613862747 0226465284 9780226465289 9780226465296 0226465292 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago London

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Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs's De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But as Picturing the Book of Nature makes clear, they do more than bear witness to the development of book publishing during the Renaissance and to the prominence attained by the fields of medical botany and anatomy in European medicine. Sachiko Kusukawa examines these texts, as well as Conrad Gessner's unpublished Historia plantarum, and demonstrates how their illustrations were integral to the emergence of a new type of argument during this period-a visual argument for the scientific study of nature. To set the stage, Kusukawa begins with a survey of the technical, financial, artistic, and political conditions that governed the production of printed books during the Renaissance. It was during the first half of the sixteenth century that learned authors began using images in their research and writing, but because the technology was so new, there was a great deal of variety of thought-and often disagreement-about exactly what images could do: how they should be used, what degree of authority should be attributed to them, which graphic elements were bearers of that authority, and what sorts of truths images could and did encode. Kusukawa investigates the works of Fuchs, Gessner, and Vesalius in light of these debates, scrutinizing the scientists' treatment of illustrations and tracing their motivation for including them in their works. What results is a fascinating and original study of the visual dimension of scientific knowledge in the sixteenth century.

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Natural history illustration --- Botanical illustration --- Medical illustration --- Illustrated books --- Art and science --- Science and art --- Illustration, Medical --- Botanical drawing --- Flower painting and illustration --- Fruit painting and illustration --- Illustration, Botanical --- Nature illustration --- History --- Science --- Books --- Medicine and art --- Scientific illustration --- Biological illustration --- 094:58 --- 094:61 --- 76.043 --- 769.04:61 --- 76.043 Iconografie: flora in de prentkunst --- Iconografie: flora in de prentkunst --- 769.04:61 Prentenverzamelingen in de grafische kunsten. Iconografie. Iconologie-:-Geneeskunde. Hygiëne. Farmacie --- Prentenverzamelingen in de grafische kunsten. Iconografie. Iconologie-:-Geneeskunde. Hygiëne. Farmacie --- 094:61 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geneeskunde. Hygiëne. Farmacie --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geneeskunde. Hygiëne. Farmacie --- 094:58 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Botany --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Botany --- Fuchs, Leonhart. --- Gessner, Conrad --- Vesalius, Andreas --- Vesal, Andreas --- Vesale, André --- Vezalij, Andrej --- Gesner, Conrad --- Gesner, Konrad --- Gesnerus, Conradus --- Gessner, Konrad --- Fuchs, Leonhart --- Fuchsius, Leonhartus --- Natural history illustration - Europe - History - 16th century --- Botanical illustration - Europe - History - 16th century --- Medical illustration - History - 16th century --- Illustrated books - Europe - History - 16th century --- Art and science - History - 16th century --- humani corporis fabrica, andreas vesalius, de historia stirpium, leonhart fuchs, plantarum, conrad gessner, medicine, anatomy, botany, nature, visual culture, science, book printing, publishing, renaissance, research, writing, images, authority, representation, reference, nonfiction, scientific knowledge, illustrations, natural history, europe, copying, coloring, medicinal plants, human body, bloodletting, jamnitzer, mattioli.

Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550.
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ISBN: 9781138270831 9780754652960 0754652963 Year: 2006 Volume: 5 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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Philosophy of science --- Iconography --- Thematology --- History of human medicine --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Biography: 1200-1499 --- Geneeskunde [Middeleeuwse ] --- Geneeskunde [Middeleeuwse ]--Werken voor 1800 --- Medicine [Medieval ] --- Medicine [Medieval ]--Early works to 1800 --- Medicine--Early works to 1800 --- Middeleeuwse geneeskunde --- Middeleeuwse wetenschap --- Médecine médiévale--Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Science [Medieval ] --- Science médiévale --- Wetenschap [Middeleeuwse ] --- Natural History --- Medical Illustration --- Manuscripts, Medical --- 091:61 --- 091:58 --- 094:61 --- 610.9 --- Handschriften i.v.m. geneeskunde --- Herbaria--(handschriften) --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geneeskunde. Hygiëne. Farmacie --- Technology Medicine History --- 094:61 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geneeskunde. Hygiëne. Farmacie --- 091:58 Herbaria--(handschriften) --- 091:61 Handschriften i.v.m. geneeskunde --- nature printing --- about valuable books --- Botanical illustration --- Medical illustration --- Medicine, Medieval --- Science, Medieval --- 091.31:7.04 --- 094:58 --- 76.043 --- Medieval science --- Medieval medicine --- Illustration, Medical --- Medicine and art --- Scientific illustration --- Botanical drawing --- Flower painting and illustration --- Fruit painting and illustration --- Illustration, Botanical --- Biological illustration --- Natural history illustration --- 76.043 Iconografie: flora in de prentkunst --- Iconografie: flora in de prentkunst --- 091.31:7.04 Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- 094:58 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Botany --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Botany --- Biology --- History, Medieval --- history --- Early works to 1800 --- Medical illustration - Early works to 1800 --- Botanical illustration - Early works to 1800 --- Natural History - history --- Medical Illustration - history --- Manuscripts, Medical - history

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