Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2020
Author	Author: Hannah Marcus
Language	English
Number of Pages	356 pp.
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
City	Chicago, IL
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Region	Europe
Library Type	Medical & Hospital Libraries Private/Personal Library Religious Libraries STEM Libraries
Chronological Period	17th century
ISBN	9780226736587
Annotation	Contents: Introduction: The paradox of censorship The Medical Republic of Letters and the Roman Indexes of Prohibited Books Locating Expertise, Soliciting Expurgations The Censor at Work Censoring Medicine in Rome's Index Expurgatorius of 1607 Prohibited Medical Books and Licensed Readers Creating Censored Objects Prohibited Books in Universal Libraries Epilogue