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Publications of Nancy Siraisi Publications of Nancy Siraisi Monographs Arts and Sciences at Padua: The Studium of Padua Before 1350. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1973. Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils: Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning. Princeton: Princeton University Press, l98l. Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Uni- versities After 1500. Princeton: Princeton University Press, l987. Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Medicine and the Italian Universities, 1250–1600. Leiden: Brill, 2001. (A collection of my previously published articles with a new introduction.) History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning. Ann Arbor: Uni- versity of Michigan Press, 2007. Communities of Learned Experience: Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Edited Collections Luke Demaitre and Nancy G. Siraisi, eds., Science, Medicine and the University: Essays in Honor of Pearl Kibre, published as two issues of Manuscripta, vol. 20, July and November, l976. A. C. Crombie and Nancy G. Siraisi, eds., The Rational Arts of Living. Smith College Studies in History, vol. 50. Northampton, MA, 1987. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 299 G. Manning, C. Klestinec (eds.), Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine, Archimedes 50, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56514-9 300 Publications of Nancy Siraisi Michael R. McVaugh and Nancy G. Siraisi, eds., Renaissance Medical Learning: Evolution of a Tradition, Osiris 6 (1990). Anthony Grafton and Nancy G. Siraisi, eds., Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Gianna Pomata and Nancy G. Siraisi, eds., Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. Articles in Refereed Journals “The Expositio Problematum Aristotelis of Peter of Abano,” Isis 6l (1970): 321–39. “Humanism and Evangelism: Italian Religious Thought and Expression in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” Montclair Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 2 (1973): 131–37 (essay review). “The Music of Pulse in the Writings of Some Italian Physicians of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” Speculum 50 (l975): 689–710. “Matheolus of Perugia’s Commentary on the Preface to the Aphorisms of Hippoc- rates,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 49 (l975): 405–28. With Pearl Kibre. “The libri morales in the Faculty of Arts and Medicine at Bologna: Bartolomeo da Varignana and the Pseudo-Aristotelian Economica,” Manuscripta 20 (1976): 105–17. “Concerning Caruncles or Callosities at the Neck of the Bladder: Translation of Surgical Text of Francesco Peccetti (l6l6),” Urology l0 (1977): 609–l4. With Adrian Zorgniotti, M.D. “Taddeo Alderotti and Bartolomeo da Varignana on the Nature of Medical Learn- ing,” Isis 68 (l977): 27–39. Reprinted in The Scientific Enterprise in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Michael H. Shank, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. “The De monarchia attributed to Apuleius,” Medievalia 7 (l98l): l–39. With Benjamin G. Kohl. “Some Recent Work on Western European Medical Learning, ca. l200–ca.l500,” History of Universities 2 (1982): 225–38 (essay review). “Some Current Trends in the Study of Renaissance Medicine,” Renaissance Quar- terly 37 (1984): 585–600. “Renaissance Commentaries on Avicenna’s Canon, Book 1, Part 1, and the Teach- ing of Medical theoria in the Italian Universities,” History of Universities 4 (1984): 47–97. “Pietro d’Abano and Taddeo Alderotti: Two Models of Medical Culture,” Medioevo 11 (1985): 139–62. “Medieval and Renaissance Medicine: Continuity and Diversity.” Editorial, Jour- nal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 41 (1986), 391–94. “Sixteenth-Century Medical Innovation Between Princely Patronage and Academic Controversy: The Case of Giovanni Argenterio.” Osiris 6 (1990): 162–80. Publications of Nancy Siraisi 301 “Girolamo Cardano and the Art of Medical Narrative,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 52 (1991), 581–602. “The New University History and Sapere e/e` potere,” Universitas: Newsletter of the International Center for the History of Universities and Science, No. 2 (April, 1992): 1–4. “Vesalius and Human Diversity in De humani corporis fabrica,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 57 (1994): 60–88. “Early Anatomy in Comparative Perspective: Introduction,” in Body and Culture: Early Anatomy in Comparative Perspective, special issue of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 50 (1995): 1–10. “Vesalius and the Reading of Galen’s Teleology,” Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 1–38. “Anatomizing the Past: Physicians and History in Renaissance Culture.” Renais- sance Quarterly 53 (2000): 1–31. “Segni evidenti, teoria e testimonianza nelle narrazioni di autopsie del Rinascimento.” In Fatti: storie dell’evidenza empirica. Simona Cerutti and Gianna Pomata, eds. Special issue, Quaderni Storici 108 (2001): 719–44. Introduction to Science and Universities of Early Modern Europe: Teaching, Specialization, Professionalization. David A. Lines, ed. Special issue, Early Science and Medicine 6 (2001): 259–66. “History, Antiquarianism and Medicine: The Case of Girolamo Mercuriale.” Jour- nal of the History of Ideas 64 (2003): 231–51. “Medicine and the Renaissance World of Learning,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 78 (2004): 1–36. “Oratory and Rhetoric in Renaissance Medicine,” Journal of the History of Ideas 65 (2004): 191–211. “Medicine 1450–1620 and the History of Science,” Isis 103 (2012): 1–24 (revised version of the 2010 History of Science Society Distinguished Lecture, presented at the annual meeting, Montreal, Quebec). Chapters in Edited Volumes, Essays “The Institutional Setting: The Universities,” in Science in the Middle Ages. David C. Lindberg, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, l978. With Pearl Kibre. 120–44. “The Medical Learning of Albertus Magnus,” in Albertus Magnus and the Sciences. James A. Weisheipl, ed. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, l980. 379–404. Introduction to The Black Death. Daniel Williman, ed. Binghamton: SUNY Press, l982. “Reflections on Italian Medical Writings of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 412 (l983): l55–68. 302 Publications of Nancy Siraisi “The Changing Fortunes of a Traditional Text: Goals and Strategies in Sixteenth- Century Latin Editions of the Canon of Avicenna,” in The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century. A. Wear, R.K. French and I.M. Lonie, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, l985. l6–41. “Dante and the Art and Science of Medicine Reconsidered,” in The Divine Comedy and the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences. Giuseppe di Scipio and Aldo Scaglione, eds. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamin Publishing Company, 1987. 224–45. “Changing Concepts of the Organization of Medical Knowledge in the Italian Universities, 14th to 16th Centuries,” in La diffusione delle scienze islamiche nel Medio Evo europeo. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1987. 291–321. “Medicine, Physiology, and Anatomy in Early Sixteenth-Century Critiques of the Arts and Sciences,” in New Perspectives in Renaissance Thought. John Henry and Sarah Hutton, eds. London: Duckworth, 1990. 214–29. “L’insegnamento della medicina ippocratica di Girolamo Cardano a Bologna,” in Sapere e\e` potere: Discipline, Dispute e Professioni nell’Universita Medievale e Moderna, Il caso bolognese a confronto. Atti del 4o Convegno, Bologna, 13–15 aprile 1989. Vol II. Verso un nuovo sistema del sapere. Andrea Cristiani, ed. Bologna: Istituto per la Storia di Bologna, 1990. 153–71. “The Faculty of Medicine.” A History of the University in Europe. Vol. 1. Univer- sities in the Middle Ages. Hilde De Ridder-Symoens, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 360–387. Editions also in German, Spanish, and Portuguese. “New drugs and ‘new’ diseases,” in New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery. Anthony Grafton with April E. Shelford and Nancy G. Siraisi, eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and the New York Public Library, 1992. 176–93. “Life Sciences and Medicine in the Renaissance World,” in Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture. Anthony Grafton, ed. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1993. 169–97 (volume accompanying exhibition at the Library of Congress). “How to Write A Latin Book on Surgery: Organizing Principles and Authorial Devices in Guglielmo da Saliceto and Dino del Garbo,” in Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death. Luis Garcia Ballester, et al., eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 88–109. “Il Canone di Avicenna e l’insegnamento della medicina pratica in Europa,” in L’insegnamento della Medicina in Europa (secoli XIV–XIX). Atti del Convegno tenutosi a Siena in occasione delle celebrazioni dei 750 anni dalla fondazione dell’Universita di Siena, ed. Francesca Vannozzi. Monografie di Quaderni Internazionali di Storia della Medicina e della Sanita, No. 6. Siena: Typografia Senese, 1994. 9–21. “Cardano, Hippocrates, and Criticism of Galen,” in Girolamo Cardano: Philosoph, Naturforscher, Arzt. Eckhard Kessler, ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994. 131–55. Publications of Nancy Siraisi 303 “‘L’individuale’ nella medicina tra Medioevo e Umanesimo: I casi clinici,”
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