Umfang:
1 online resource (350 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789042031579
Serie:
Clio Medica Ser.
Inhalt:
What did you do when you fell ill in fifteenth-century Florence? How did you get the medicines that you needed at a price you could afford? What would you find when you entered an apothecary's shop? This richly detailed study of the Speziale al Giglio in Florence provides surprising answers, demonstrating the continued importance of highly personalised medical practice late into the fifteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, it shows how personal relationships and mutual trust, rather than market forces, made payment possible even for those with limited incomes. Examining the spaces, people and products involved, Making and Marketing Medicine investigates the roles played by sociability, information networks and regulation in creating communities as well as in promoting health in Renaissance Italy.
Inhalt:
Intro -- MAKING AND MARKETING MEDICINE IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE -- Contents -- List of Images -- List of Tables -- List of Charts -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Currencies, Weights and Measures -- 1 Introduction and Acknowledgements -- PART ONE: SELLING HEALTH -- 2 The Shop and the City -- 3 Keeping Shop -- PART TWO: CUSTOMERS AND CREDIT -- 4 People and their Purchases -- 5 Recovering Debts -- PART THREE: PRODUCTS -- 6 Wax -- 7 Sugar and Spices -- 8 Medicines -- 9 Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789042031562
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789042031562
Sprache:
Englisch
