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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alisha RankinPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.40cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780226925387ISBN 10: 0226925382 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 19 March 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a beautifully crafted, solid, and imaginative piece of historical research, which sheds new light on women's role in early modern medicine and on their participation in the early modern culture of experimentation and empiricism. Based on exceptionally rich archival evidence, Alisha Rankin's book reconstructs the role of noblewomen as healers in sixteenth-century German courts, and especially their proficiency in experimental practices aimed at developing, collecting, and testing recipes for medications. Rankin highlights the connection between the medieval tradition of experimenta (medical recipes) and the birth of early modern empiricist attitudes and practices, thus offering an important contribution to the history of early modern scientific culture. <br>--Gianna Pomata, Johns Hopkins University Author InformationAlisha Rankin is assistant professor of history at Tufts University. She is coeditor of Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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