id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ftjj7sec7bhhbos7apltyvvtui Andrew Wear Katharine Park, Doctors and medicine in early renaissance Florence, Princeton University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xii, 298, £33.40 1987 2 .pdf application/pdf 1453 84 54 KATHARINE PARK, Doctors andmedicine in early renaissance Florence, Princeton University Katharine Park has written an excellent book that contributes equally to medical history and elucidation of the profession of medicine in the city will add one more piece to the research we have been prepared by Cipolla's work on plague and public health to view Italian cities as crucial point made by Park, however, is that it was not the professionalization of medicine that The Guild of Doctors, Apothecaries and Grocers is central to the book. Park's detailed and lucid account of the Guild shows that it fewer doctors had political influence within the Guild and the city. The book has some weaknesses, Park was perhaps too tied in to the Florentine research scholastic medicine and of the intellectual and literary interests of Florentine doctors should be studied by some social and intellectual historians of medicine who see their respective ./cache/work_ftjj7sec7bhhbos7apltyvvtui.pdf ./txt/work_ftjj7sec7bhhbos7apltyvvtui.txt