{"id":418,"date":"2018-05-04T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T08:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=418"},"modified":"2018-05-04T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T08:21:23","slug":"silvia-de-renzis-book-pathology-in-practice-diseases-and-dissections-in-early-modern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Silvia de Renzi&#8217;s book Pathology in Practice Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dr. Silvia de Renzi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/sr2247\" >Lecturer in the History of Medicine<\/a>, has published <span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, serif; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Pathology-in-Practice-Diseases-and-Dissections-in-Early-Modern-Europe\/De-Renzi-Bresadola-Conforti\/p\/book\/9781472463814\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.routledge.com');\"><span style=\"color: #414142; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Pathology in Practice: <\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe, edited with Marco Bresadola<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">, <\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">and <\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Maria Conforti.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. Drawing on different approaches and on sources as varied as notes taken at the dissection table, legal records and learned publications, the chapters explore how autopsies informed the understanding of pathology of all those involved. With a broad geography, including Rome, Amsterdam and Geneva, the book recaptures the lost worlds of physicians, surgeons, patients, families and civic authorities as they used corpses to understand diseases and make sense of suffering. The evidence from post-mortems was not straightforward, but between 1500 and 1750 medical practitioners rose to the challenge, proposing various solutions to the difficulties they encountered and creating a remarkable body of knowledge. The book shows the scope and diversity of this tradition and how laypeople contributed their knowledge and expectations to the wide-ranging exchanges stimulated by the opening of bodies.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/9781472463814.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/9781472463814-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/9781472463814-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/9781472463814.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Silvia de Renzi, Lecturer in the History of Medicine, has published Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe, edited with Marco Bresadola, and Maria Conforti.Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. This book provides a fresh account &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=418\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silvia de Renzi&#8217;s book Pathology in Practice Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}