Medicine and the Medici in Grand Ducal Tuscany Research Program

 

MISSION

With a series of themes, we aim to explore the interconnections between public and private medicine and health in Renaissance and early modern Tuscany.

Each theme is designed to address new directions of research in the history of Italian medicine by exploring innovative methodologies and perspectives and through bringing together scholars working on Italy from around the world.

 

  • Each theme should provide inter-connections with other fields to make this a truly interdisciplinary project.
  • Each theme should also consider the relationship between theory and practice.

 

 

THEMES

  • public health and the environment
  • learned medicine: theory and practice
  • religion, the arts and medicine
  • the body and the patient
  • apothecaries, recipes empirics, and materia medica
  • women and medicine: domestic medicine and women healers

 

THE WIDER CONTEXT: TUSCANY AND EUROPE

An important longer term aim of the project will be to place medicine in Grand Ducal Tuscany within a wider European context by examining its role as an important center for the exchange of medical and scientific ideas across Europe.

 

STAFF

Director: John Henderson   (Birkbeck, University of London)