Autore
Calabritto, Monica

Titolo
Medicina practica, consilia and the illnesses of the head in Girolamo Mercuriale and Giulio Cesare Claudini. Similarities and differences of the Sexes
Periodico
Medicina & Storia (Online)
Anno: 2006 - Volume: 6 - Fascicolo: 11 - Pagina iniziale: 63 - Pagina finale: 83

My study analyzes the most common types of illnesses of the head in treatises of medicina practica and in collections of consilia written by leading Bolognese physicians in the second half of the sixteenth century. In this study I offer a partial answer to the question of madness in sixteenth-century Bologna, a university medical center for all of Italy and Europe in the early-modern period. The answer lies, in part, in the learned medical tradition of madness, and in particular, in the ways in which important physicians at the University of Bologna represented madness in relation to gender in two genres: the treatise of medicina practica and the consilium. Though stereotypes of masculine and feminine behavior shaped the way these two genres viewed mental illnesses, they played a lesser role in the consilia.



SICI: 1828-6224(2006)6:11<63:MPCATI>2.0.ZU;2-8
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