Pathology in Practice

Part 1: Framing the Practice

1. Pathological Dissections in Early Modern Europe: Practice and Knowledge

Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola and Maria Conforti

2. Humanist Post-Mortems: Philology and Therapy

Gionata Liboni

3. Organising Pathological Knowledge: Theophile Bonet's Sepulchretum and the Making of a Tradition

Massimo Rinaldi

4. The Problems of Anatomia Practica and How to Solve Them: Pathological Dissection Around 1700

Marco Bresadola

Part 2: Multiple Pathologies

5. Post-Mortems, Anatomical Dissections and Humoural Pathology in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Michael Stolberg

6. Seats and Series: Dissecting Diseases in the Seventeenth Century

Silvia De Renzi

7. Visible Signs, Invisible Processes: Explaining Poison in the Late Seventeenth Century

Maria Conforti

8. Frederik Ruysch, Surgical Anatomy and the Amsterdam Republic of Medicine

Rina Knoeff

Part 3: Productive Dialogues

9. Pre- and Post-Mortem Inquiries: Assessing Poisoning in the Law Courts of Sixteenth-Century Rome

Elisa Andretta

10. Dissecting Pain: Patients, Families and Medical Expertise in Early Modern Germany

Annemarie Kinzelbach

11. Therapeutic Post-Mortems in and Around Eighteenth-Century Geneva

Philip Rieder