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From Healer to Pharmacist: Healing Practices in Italy between the 15th and 16th centuries
Roberts, Emma
Roberts, Emma
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In Italy, the role of the healer between the 15th and 16th century changed and evolved according to new scientific discoveries and a stronger organization developing around what a healer could be or not. For the common people, the healer had many faces, from folk healers to monks to pharmacists. For the rich, healers were doctors who studied at universities. All of them had an important role outside and inside the Italian cities’ limits. Therefore, my research question was if the evolution of the healer through these centuries shows the beginnings of a scientific approach to healing, something that would be better defined later with the coming scientific revolutions. All this with a stronger focus on the role of the pharmacist, the middleman of all social classes. My research answers that yes, that is exactly what is happening even if slowly. It is not as scientific as it is in present day, but the more changes happened in the world of health, the more method was applied to the culture of medicine.
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Thesis (B.A. in History, Minor in Psychology)--John Cabot University, Spring 2021.
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2021
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Pharmacy, History
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Emma. "From Healer to Pharmacist: Healing Practices in Italy between the 15th and 16th centuries". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2021.