Medicine at the Courts of Europe by Vivian Nutton

Medicine at the Courts of Europe by Vivian Nutton

Originally published in 1990, Medicine at the Courts of Europe 1500-1837 is a collection of essays examining the whole range of medical activities in a variety of European courts, from Rome of the Borgias to the Russia of Catherine the Great. It documents the diverse influences of custom, wealth, religion and royal intervention, along with foreign innovation, popular literary satire and matters of litigation which so changed the face of court medicine over three centuries. By looking at court medical practitioners in such a wide chronological, geographic and thematic context, these essays provide many new insights for all those interested in the history of medicine, society and politics from the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century.

Vivian Nutton, FBA, is Professor emeritus of the History of Medicine at University College London, as well as Professor of the History of Medicine at the First Moscow State Medical University. He has published extensively on all aspects on medicine before the seventeenth century, and is the author of Ancient Medicine, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2012). He has edited and translated several treatises from the Galenic Corpus including On Prognosis (1979), On My Own Opinions (1999), and On Problematical Movements (2011). His edition and translation of selections from the neglected On the Voice is forthcoming in the journal Galenos. His recent studies of Renaissance Galenism include translations of Principles of Anatomy according to Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius (Routledge, 2017) and An Autobibliography by John Caius (Routledge, 2018). A general survey of European medicine from 1490 to 1628 is in progress.

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ISBN 13	9781138388185
ISBN 10	1138388181
Title	Medicine at the Courts of Europe
Author	Vivian Nutton
Series	Routledge Library Editions: History Of Medicine
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2020-05-28
Number of pages	314
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