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Duchess, Heal Thyself: Elisabeth of Rochlitz and the Patient's Perspective in Early Modern Germany by RANKIN, ALISHA

“…This article uses the case of German noblewoman Elisabeth of Rochlitz as a window on sixteenth-century patient attitudes toward disease and the body. A widowed…”
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Sharon T. Strocchia. Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy by Rankin, Alisha

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Recipes in Early Modern Europe by Alisha Rankin

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On Anecdote and Antidotes: Poison Trials in Sixteenth-Century Europe by RANKIN, ALISHA

“…This article describes the use of poison trials, in which an animal or a condemned criminal was poisoned, to test antidotes in sixteenth-century Europe. In…”
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Medicine, Monopoly, and the Premodern State — Early Clinical Trials by Rankin, Alisha, Rivest, Justin

“…An examination of the use of clinical trials as a tool for the marketing and licensing of drugs in Europe from the 16th through the 18th centuries reveals a…”
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Testing Drugs and Trying Cures: Experiment and Medicine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by LEONG, ELAINE, RANKIN, ALISHA

“…This article examines traditions of testing drugs (as substances) and trying cures (on patients) in medieval and early modern Europe. It argues that the…”
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Meredith K. Ray. Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy . (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History.) 291 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2015. $45 (cloth) by Rankin, Alisha

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Exotic materials and treasured knowledge: the valuable legacy of noblewomen's remedies in early modern Germany by Rankin, Alisha

“…Estate inventories taken after the death of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century German noblewomen occasionally contain itemizations of court apothecaries…”
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Exotic materials and treasured knowledge: the valuable legacy of noblewomen's remedies in early modern G ermany by Rankin, Alisha

“…Estate inventories taken after the death of sixteenth‐ and seventeenth‐ century G erman noblewomen occasionally contain itemizations of court apothecaries…”
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Becoming an Expert Practitioner: Court Experimentalism and the Medical Skills of Anna of Saxony (1532–1585) by Rankin, Alisha

“…This essay proposes that the well‐documented interest in empirical and experimental practice at the early modern German courts was not limited to male…”
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Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1800 . Leigh Whaley by Rankin, Alisha

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Bernd Roeck. Ketzer, Künstler und Dämonen: Die Welten des Goldschmieds David Altenstetter. Eine Geschichte aus der Renaissance. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2010. 288 pp. + 16 color pls. index. illus. €24.90. ISBN: 978–3–406–59171–6 by Rankin, Alisha

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Kathleen P. Long, ed. Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xvi + 314 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6971–5 by Rankin, Alisha

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Der Dienst Am Kranken: Krankenversorgung zwischen Caritas, Medizin und Okonomie vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit (review) by Rankin, Alisha

“…[...] Peter Dilg surveys the development of the apothecary trade in the Middle Ages, which he relates to the early medieval monastic tradition as well as to…”
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Empirics, Physicians, and Wonder Drugs in Early Modern Germany: The Case of the Panacea Amwaldina by Rankin, Alisha

“…This essay examines the conflicting approaches towards marvelous cures in sixteenth-century Germany. As pharmaceutical substances flooded in from both east and…”
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Duchess, Heal Thyself : Elisabeth of Rochlitz and the Patient's Perspective in Early Modern Germany: Women, Health, and Healing in Early Modern Europe by RANKIN, Alisha

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Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution by Rankin, Alisha

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History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 2016 by Ogilvie, Brian, Schmalzer, Sigrid, Jones, Alex, Curry, Helen, Hall, Karl, Slack, Nancy, Rudolph, John, Waddell, Mark, Guerrini, Anita, Bellon, Richard, Mazzotti, Massimo, Radick, Gregory, Aronova, Elena, Heggie, Vanessa, Kay, Gwen, Cowan, Ruth, Shteir, Rusty, Conway, Erik M., Theunissen, Bert, Barrow, Mark, Smith, Crosbie, Tresch, John, Siraisi, Nancy, Cadden, Joan, Findlen, Paula, Milburn, Colin, Rankin, Alisha, Truitt, Elly R.

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Perfecting Aristotle by Rankin, Alisha

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Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia, eds., Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550 by Rankin, Alisha

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