Nancy Siraisi

Nancy G. Siraisi ( born 1932 ) is an American historian of science.

Siraisi studied at Oxford University ( Bachelor's degree in 1953 and master's degree in 1958 ) and received his doctorate in 1970 at the City University of New York ( CUNY ). From 1970 to 2003 she was a professor at Hunter College and from 1976 also at the Graduate Center of CUNY. As a historian of science, it deals mainly with medical history of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages. For example, they wrote the biography of the Renaissance physician Taddeo Alderotti and his school in Bologna in the 13th century by Girolamo Cardano, the (especially about his work as a physician ). She examined here also the former medical practice and the cultural and historical embeddedness of medicine.

In 2003 she received the George Sarton Medal. In 2008 she received a MacArthur Fellowship.

Writings

  • Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils - two generations of italy medieval learning, Princeton University Press 1981
  • Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine - an introduction to knowledge and practice, University of Chicago Press, 1990
  • History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning, University of Michigan Press, 2008
  • Medicine and the italian universities 1250-1600, Brill, Leiden 2001
  • Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: the Canon and medical teaching in Italian universities after 1500, Princeton University Press 1987
  • The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine, Princeton University Press 1997
  • Published by Anthony Grafton: Natural particular - nature and the disciplines in renaissance europe, MIT Press 1999
  • Publisher Gianna Pomata: Historia: empiricism and erudition in early modern Europe, MIT Press 2005
  • Anthony Grafton, April Shelford: New worlds, ancient texts. The power of tradition and the shock of discovery, Belknap Press 1992
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