The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century

Introduction 1. Aristotle among the physicians C. B. Schmitt 2. The changing fortunes of a traditional text: goals and strategies in sixteenth-century Latin editions of the Canon of Avicenna N. G. Siraisi 3. Berengario da Carpi and the use of commentary in anatomical teaching R. K. French 4. Humanist surgery V. Nutoon 5. Pharmacy in the republic of Venice in the sixteenth century R. Palmer 6. Explorations in renaissance writings on the practice of medicine A. Wear 7. Jacques Dubois as a practitioner G. Baader 8. The 'Paris Hippocratics': teaching and research in Paris in the second half of the sixteenth century I. M. Lonie 9. The generation of disease: occult causes and diseases of the total substance L. Deer Richardson 10. Fabricius and the 'Aristotle project' in anatomical teaching and research at Padua A. Cunningham 11. Disputation and description in the renaissance pulse controversy J. J. Bylebyl 12. Academicism versus empiricism in practical medicine in sixteenth-century Spain with regard to morisco practitioners L. Garcia-Ballester Notes Index.