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  title info:
    title: Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement
  name:
    name part: Hollerbach, Teresa.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2023
    edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XXII, 327 pages 1 illustrations)
  abstract: This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561-1636) and into the origins of quantification in medicine. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Sanctorius developed instruments to measure and quantify physiological change. As trivial as the quantitative assessment of health issues might seem to us today - in times of fitness trackers and smart watches - it was highly innovative at that time. With his instruments, Sanctorius introduced quantitative research into the field of physiology. Historical accounts of Sanctorius and his work tend to tell the story of a genius who, almost out of the blue, invented a new medical science, based on measurement and quantification, that profoundly influenced modernity. Abandoning the "genius narrative," this book examines Sanctorius and his work in the broader perspective of processes of knowledge transformation in early modern medicine. It is the first systematic study to include the entire range of the physician's intellectual and practical activities. Adopting a material culture perspective, the research draws on the contemporary reconstruction of Sanctorius's most famous instrument: the Sanctorian weighing chair. And here it departs from past studies that focus mainly on Sanctorius's thinking rather than on his making and doing. The book also re-evaluates Sanctorius's role in the wider process of the early transformation of medical culture in the early modern period, a process that ultimately led to the abandonment of Galenic medicine and to the introduction of a new medical science, based on the use of quantification and measurement in medical research. The book is therefore an important contribution to the history of medicine and historical epistemology aimed at historians of science and philosophy.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- Preface (Dr. Matteo Valleriani) -- Introduction -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Chapter 1. Sanctorius Sanctorius-Between Koper and Venice -- Chapter 2. Sanctorius's Galenism -- Chapter 3. Sanctorius's Work in its Practical Context -- Chapter 4. Quantification in Galenic Medicine -- Chapter 5. Quantification and Certainty -- Chapter 6. The Measuring Instruments -- Chapter 7. Sanctorius Revisited -- List of Appendices.
  note: by Teresa Hollerbach.
  note: Open Access
  subject:
    topic: Science-History
  subject:
    topic: Science-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Medicine-History
  subject:
    topic: Technology
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  subject:
    topic: History of Technology
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  classification: Q124.6-127.2
  classification: 509
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    title info:
      title: Springer Nature eBook
  identifier: 9783031301186
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30118-6
  access condition: Open Access
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    record creation date: 230518
    record change date: 20230907142648.8
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