Questioning Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Rome: The Consultations of Paolo Zacchia
Вопросы медицины в Риме XVII века: консультации Паоло Заккьи
2011-04-01
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Latin consiliaPaolo ZacchiaQuaestiones medico-legalesmedical jurisprudenceseventeenth-century Rome
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This paper surveys the life and contributions of Paolo Zacchia (1584-1659) before analyzing 85 Latin consilia (or consultations) in his Quaestiones medico-legales. Topics include death, paternity, sexuality, disease, and miracles. Because the consilia cite the rest of his treatise, they open the entire work, elucidating applications of theory. This research relied on the construction of a database, built on subject, date, and citations. The paper closes with historiographic suggestions for why this prominent author has been ignored in North America.
Key Findings
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Because the consultations cite other sections of the treatise, they provide an entry point for understanding the work as a whole.
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The paper analyzes 85 Latin medical consultations by Paolo Zacchia, covering death, paternity, sexuality, disease, and miracles.
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The paper proposes historiographic explanations for Paolo Zacchia’s relative neglect in North American scholarship.
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The study constructs a database organized by subject, date, and citations to examine the consultations systematically.
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Zacchia’s consilia demonstrate how theoretical principles in Quaestiones medico-legales were applied to concrete medico-legal questions.
Research Object
Paolo Zacchia’s 85 Latin medical-legal consultations (consilia) in Quaestiones medico-legales
Research Subject
The consultations’ topics, theoretical citations, and applications in seventeenth-century medicine and legal medicine, including death, paternity, sexuality, disease, and miracles
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