Based on a conference held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in Sept. 1983
Contents:
Aristotle among the physicians / C.B. Schmitt -- The changing fortunes of a traditional text : goals and strategies in sixteenth-century Latin editions of the Canon of Avicenna / N.G. Siraisi -- Berengario da Carpi and the use of commentary in anatomical teaching / R.K. French -- Humanist surgery / V. Nutton -- Pharmacy in the republic of Venice in the sixteenth century / R. Palmer -- Explorations in renaissance writings on the practice of medicine / A. Wear -- Jacques Dubois as a practitioner / G. Baader -- The "Paris Hippocratics" : teaching and research in Paris in the second half of the sixteenth century / I.M. Lonie -- The generation of disease : occult causes and diseases of the total susbstance / L. Deer Richardson -- Fabricius and the "Aristotle project" in anatomical teaching and research at Padua / A. Cunningham -- Disputation and description in the renaissance pulse controversy / J.J. Bylebyl -- Academicism versus empiricism in practical medicine in sixteenth-century Spain with regard to morisco practitioners / L. García-Ballester
