Contracting a cure : patients, healers, and the law in early modern Bologna /

Contracting a cure : patients, healers, and the law in early modern Bologna /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pomata, Gianna.
Uniform title:	Promessa di guarigione. English
Imprint:	Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1998.
Description:	xvii, 294 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical care -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. Medical care -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- 16th century. Medical care -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. Medical care -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- 17th century. Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- 16th century. Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Italy -- Bologna -- History -- 17th century. Medical care. Medical care -- Law and legislation. Europe. Italy -- Bologna. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3538754

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ISBN:	0801858585 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-275) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Voices of the Sick
Ch. 1. A Doctors' Tribunal
Ch. 2. Promising a Cure: Agreements between Patients and Healers in the Early Modern Period
Ch. 3. The Medical System as Seen by the Doctors
Ch. 4. Patients' Rights and the Doctors' Prestige
Ch. 5. The Medical System as Seen by the Sick
Ch. 6. The Disappearance of the Agreement for a Cure
App. Examples of Cure Agreements, 1244-1764.