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Questioning Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Rome: The Consultations of Paolo Zacchia

Author(s) -

Jacalyn Duffin

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

canadian journal of health history

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117

H-Index - 13

eISSN - 2371-0179

pISSN - 0823-2105

DOI - 10.3138/cbmh.28.1.149

Subject(s) - subject (documents) , latin americans , classics , history , subject matter , human sexuality , gerontology , medicine , philosophy , sociology , library science , law , political science , gender studies , computer science , linguistics , curriculum

This paper surveys the life and contributions of Paolo Zacchia (15841659) before analyzing 85 Latin consilia (or consultations) in his Quaestiones medico-legales. Topics include death, paternity, sexuality, disease, and miracles. Because the consilia cite the rest of his treatise, they open the entire work, elucidating applications of theory. This research relied on the construction of a database, built on subject, date, and citations. The paper closes with historiographic suggestions for why this prominent author has been ignored in North America.

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