Spaces, objects and identities in early modern Italian medicine / edited by Sandra Cavallo and David Gentilcore.

Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2008.

123 pages : illustrations ; cm.

"Published for the Society for Renaissance Studies."

"First published as volume 21, issue 4 of Renaissance studies."

Miscarriages of apothecary justice: un-separate spaces of work and family in early modern Rome / Elizabeth S. Cohen -- Pharmacies as centres of communication in early modern Venice / Filippo de Vivo -- Women, wax and anatomy in the century of things / Lucia Dacome -- Medical competence, anatomy and the polity in seventeenth-century Rome / Silvia De Renzi -- Malpighi and the holy body: medical experts and miraculous evidence in seventeenth-century Italy / Gianna Pomata.

Includes bibliographical references and index.