The body of evidence : corpses and proofs in early modern European medicine /

"When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal 'signs' useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine, edited by Francesco Paolo de Cegl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Colección:History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern philosophy and science ; v. 30.
Temas:
Forensic pathology > Europe > History.
Death > Proof and certification > Europe > History.
Autopsy > Europe > History.
Dead > Identification.
Human anatomy > Study and teaching > Europe > History.
Pathologie médico-légale > Europe > Histoire.
Décès > Constatation > Europe > Histoire.
Autopsie > Europe > Histoire.
Morts > Identification.
Anatomie humaine > Étude et enseignement > Europe > Histoire.
Autopsy
Dead > Identification
Death > Proof and certification
Forensic pathology
Human anatomy > Study and teaching
Europe
European history
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Corpses, evidence and medical knowledge in the late middle ages and the early modern age / Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
  • Saving the phenomenon : why corpses bled in the presence of their murderer in early modern science / Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
  • Unfamiliar faces : the identification of corpses in late medieval Valencia / Carmel Ferragud
  • Reading the corpse in the late middle ages (Bologna, mid 13th century-early 16th century) / Tommaso Duranti
  • Dissection techniques, forensics and anatomy in the 16th century / Allen Shotwell
  • Monstrous exegesis : opening up double monsters in early modern Europe / Alan W.H. Bates
  • Corpses, contagion and courage : fear and the inspection of bodies in 17th-century London / Kevin Siena
  • Knowledge from bodies and resistance to anatomical discourse (Padua, 16th-18th centuries) / Massimo Galtarossa
  • Reading moral conduct and physical characteristics : the classification of suicide in early modern Europe / Alexander Kästner
  • Corpses and confessions : forensic investigation and infanticide in early modern Germany / Margaret Brannan Lewis
  • Visum et Eepertum : medical doctrine and criminal procedures in France and Naples (17th-18th Centuries) / Diego Carnevale
  • Frightening whirlpools : drowning in France in the 18th century / Lucia De Frenza and Caterina Tisci.

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