Forbidden knowledge : medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy / Hannah Marcus.
Forbidden knowledge : medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy / Hannah Marcus.
Forbidden knowledge : medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy / Hannah Marcus.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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G 2020/4356
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English
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xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The Medical Republic of Letters and the Roman Indexes of Prohibited Books -- Locating Expertise, Soliciting Expurgations -- The Censor at Work -- Censoring Medicine in Rome's Index Expurgatorius of 1607 -- Prohibited Medical Books and Licensed Readers -- Creating Censored Objects -- Prohibited Books...
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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Illinois
Date Published
2020.
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"Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on many of them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy end up back on library shelves in the seventeenth century? Historian Hannah Marcus uncovers how early modern physicians evaluated the ut...
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Forbidden knowledge : medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy / Hannah Marcus.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ebook version : 9780226736617
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©2020
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G 2020/4356
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74VKaMlOkVrA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMlOkVrA
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9780226736587
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363.310945
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991024352518202626
