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Murphy's exceptional book offers impressive insights into the rise of physicians' social and political authority in sixteenth-century Nuremberg. With new analytical approaches that uncover deeper dimensions of physicians' scholarly practices and ambitions, her work adds much to our knowledge of a pivotal time when Renaissance medicine rethought its foundations and place in society. --Erik Heinrichs, author of Plague, Print, and the Reformation: The German Reform of Healing, 1473- Hannah Murphy takes us on a fascinating adventure through the professional world of Renaissance physicians, illuminating the civic commitments that shaped their identity, the new and traditional areas of expertise they relied on, and the richness of their own scriptorial and editorial experiences. Her book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Galenism, the professional contours of medicine, and the Reformation among learned figures in the early modern period. --Cynthia Klestinec, author of Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice

Hannah Murphy's excellent New Order of Medicine . . . explains, in fascinating detail, how the physician-centered medical hierarchy came to be. . . . An engaging tale of how physicians solidified their power and an innovative approach to the history of the book. --Isis Hannah Murphy takes us on a fascinating adventure through the professional world of Renaissance physicians, illuminating the civic commitments that shaped their identity, the new and traditional areas of expertise they relied on, and the richness of their own scriptorial and editorial experiences. Her book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Galenism, the professional contours of medicine, and the Reformation among learned figures in the early modern period. --Cynthia Klestinec, author of Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice Murphy's exceptional book offers impressive insights into the rise of physicians' social and political authority in sixteenth-century Nuremberg. With new analytical approaches that uncover deeper dimensions of physicians' scholarly practices and ambitions, her work adds much to our knowledge of a pivotal time when Renaissance medicine rethought its foundations and place in society. --Erik Heinrichs, author of Plague, Print, and the Reformation: The German Reform of Healing, 1473-1573 Murphy has written an excellent book that delivers up a masterful demonstration of how a narrowly focused piece of historical research can be worked and presented so that it shines a light on a wide ranging historical development. The book should be of interest to anybody involved in the history of European medicine over the last five hundred years but will also make an interesting read for any early modern historian interested in going beyond the boundaries of their own discipline. --The Renaissance Mathematicus

Murphy has written an excellent book that delivers up a masterful demonstration of how a narrowly focused piece of historical research can be worked and presented so that it shines a light on a wide ranging historical development. The book should be of interest to anybody involved in the history of European medicine over the last five hundred years but will also make an interesting read for any early modern historian interested in going beyond the boundaries of their own discipline. --The Renaissance Mathematicus Murphy's exceptional book offers impressive insights into the rise of physicians' social and political authority in sixteenth-century Nuremberg. With new analytical approaches that uncover deeper dimensions of physicians' scholarly practices and ambitions, her work adds much to our knowledge of a pivotal time when Renaissance medicine rethought its foundations and place in society. --Erik Heinrichs, author of Plague, Print, and the Reformation: The German Reform of Healing, 1473-1573 Hannah Murphy takes us on a fascinating adventure through the professional world of Renaissance physicians, illuminating the civic commitments that shaped their identity, the new and traditional areas of expertise they relied on, and the richness of their own scriptorial and editorial experiences. Her book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Galenism, the professional contours of medicine, and the Reformation among learned figures in the early modern period. --Cynthia Klestinec, author of Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice

Hannah Murphy takes us on a fascinating adventure through the professional world of Renaissance physicians, illuminating the civic commitments that shaped their identity, the new and traditional areas of expertise they relied on, and the richness of their own scriptorial and editorial experiences. Her book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Galenism, the professional contours of medicine, and the Reformation among learned figures in the early modern period. --Cynthia Klestinec, author of Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice Murphy's exceptional book offers impressive insights into the rise of physicians' social and political authority in sixteenth-century Nuremberg. With new analytical approaches that uncover deeper dimensions of physicians' scholarly practices and ambitions, her work adds much to our knowledge of a pivotal time when Renaissance medicine rethought its foundations and place in society. --Erik Heinrichs, author of Plague, Print, and the Reformation: The German Reform of Healing, 1473-

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Hannah Murphy is a senior postdoctoral research fellow at King's College London.

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