Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Part I. The Canon as a Latin Medical Book
6. I. Text, Commentary, and Pedagogy in Renaissance Medicine 3
7. 2. The Canon of Avicenna 19
8. Part II. The Canon in the Schools
9. 3. The Canon in the Medieval Universities and the Humanist Attack on Avicenna 43
10. 4. The Canon in Italian Medical Education After 1500 77
11. Part III. The Canon and its Renaissance Editors, Translators, and Commentators
12. 5. Renaissance Editions 127
13. 6. Commentators and Commentaries 175
14. Part IV. Canon Ι. Ι and the Teaching of Medical Theory at Padua and Bologna
15. 7. Philosophy and Science in a Medical Milieu 221
16. 8. Canon 1.1 and Renaissance Physiology 294
17. Conclusion 353
18. Appendices. Latin Editions of the Canon Published after 1500 and Manuscripts and Editions of Latin Commentaries on the Canon Written after 1500 359
19. Selected Bibliography 377
20. Index 397