A Medical Renaissance?

Medical crises and moral renaissance.

The medical Renaissance of the sixteenth century

A. WEAR, R. K. FRENCH, and I. M. LONIE (editors), The medical Renaissance of the sixteenth century, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 350, £35.00. When planning their 1983 conference on renaissance medicine, the editors of this volume had in mind not so much to repeat the traditional picture, which portrays the achievements of a few great figures, as to investigate the typical the...

Renaissance medical learning: evolution of a tradition, Osiris

Renaissance, as it appears through art, architecture, literature, music, dance, anatomy, and much else besides. The subject is vast, and there are thirty-three separate contributions to the volume, together with an introduction by Andre Chastel and a masterful synthesis of the many and complex themes of the conference by Marie-Madeleine Fontaine. It is impossible to do it full justice here, and...

Public health and the medical profession in the Renaissance

A soil science renaissance

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Soil science Student numbers Soil science publications Environmental soil science UN organisations Soil science impact Research funds The renaissance was an intellectually-rich period following a period of stasis in the medieval period. Something analogous appears to be currently taking place in soil science where novel approaches to thought are combined with a r...