REVIEWS: Formes du savoir médical à la Renaissance. Violaine Giacomotto-Charra, and Jacqueline Vons, eds. Pessac: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, 2017. 304 pp. €23

The first part of the volume addresses the flourishing of vernacular and Latin translations of medical texts according to their target audience and professional plans (Valérie Worth-Stylianou). [...]the articulation of the medical tradition with Paracelsian alchemy is considered in the argumentation...

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Published in:Renaissance Quarterly 2019, Vol.72 (1), p.287-289
Main Author: Moreau, Elisabeth
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Argumentation
Colloquial language
Disorders
Essays
French language
Latin language
Surgery
Topic and comment
Traditions
Translation
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Summary:The first part of the volume addresses the flourishing of vernacular and Latin translations of medical texts according to their target audience and professional plans (Valérie Worth-Stylianou). [...]the articulation of the medical tradition with Paracelsian alchemy is considered in the argumentation of the preface to the French translation of Paracelsus's Chirurgia Magna (Magdalena Kozluk). The contributions do tend to focus rather closely on primary sources, at times neglecting to provide a broader contextualization and bibliography of the topic under study. [...]despite the initial emphasis on the diversity of medical knowledge, practical branches such as anatomy, surgery, and dietetics take priority at the expense of theoretical disciplines like physiology and pathology.
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1017/rqx.2018.44