Forbidden Knowledge by Hannah Marcus (Paperback Book)

Name: Forbidden Knowledge by Hannah Marcus (Paperback Book)
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Forbidden KnowledgeMedicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy\nAuthor(s): Hannah Marcus\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226829470, 978-0226829470\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation.\n\nForbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on library shelves in the seventeenth? Historian Hannah Marcus uncovers how early modern physicians evaluated the utility of banned books and facilitated their continued circulation in conversation with Catholic authorities.\n Through extensive archival research, Marcus highlights how talk of scientific utility, once thought to.