Centres of Medical Excellence? : Medical Travel and Education in Europe, 1500–1789 (Paperback)

Contents: Part I Where to Go and How to Get There: The Bartholins, the Platters and Laurentius Gryllus: the peregrinato medica in the 16th and 17th centuries, Andrew Cunningham; Medical education and centres of excellence in 18th-century Europe: towards an identification, Laurence Brockliss; The mobility of medical students from the 15th to the 18th centuries: the institutional context, Hilde Ridder-Symoens. Part II The Peregrinato Medica, from the Peripheries to the Centres and Back Again: Spanish medical students' peregrinato to Italian universities in the Renaissance, Jon Arrizabalaga; On Portuguese medical students and masters travelling abroad: an overview from the early modern period to the Enlightenment, MA¡rio Sergio Farelo; Pieter van Foreest and the acquisition and travelling of medical knowledge in the 16th century, Catrien Santing; 'Like bees, who neither suck nor generate their honey from one flower': the significance of the peregrinato academica for Danish medical students in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Ole Peter Grell. Part III The Centres of Excellence: Medical education in Padua: students, faculty and facilities, Cynthia Klestinec; Paris: 'certainly the best place for learning the practical part of anatomy and surgery', Toby Gelfland; Medical education in 18th-century Montpellier, Elizabeth A. Williams; Herman Boerhaave at Leiden: communis Europae praeceptor, Rina Knoeff; Science, practice and reputation: the University of GA¶ttingen and its medical faculty in the 18th century, Hubert Steinke; The importance of being Edinburgh: the rise and fall of the Edinburgh medical school in the 18th century, Helen Dingwall; Index.