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Book SynopsisKatharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Prince
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Tables, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*I. The Guild, pg. 15*II. The Doctors, pg. 47*III. The Medical Marketplace, pg. 85*IV. Medical Careers, pg. 118*V. Doctors in Florentine Society, pg. 151*VI. Doctors in Florentine Culture, pg. 188*Conclusion, pg. 237*APPENDIX I. Names, Dates, Places, and Money, pg. 241*APPENDIX II. Medical Curriculum at the University of Bologna (1405), pg. 245*APPENDIX III. Doctors in the Catasto of 1427, pg. 249*APPENDIX IV. Index to Doctors' Letters, pg. 253*Bibliography, pg. 257*General Index, pg. 285*Index of Doctors and Their Families, pg. 293
