Article Title：History of medical bibliography: a useful tool for teaching medical history? A practical sample: explaining the plague
Abstract：
The history of medical bibliography is considered an exclusive prerogative of research for historians of bibliography, historians of book and libraries but not a matter of interest to medical historians. Actually, it represents a high-level potential research field almost unexplored and underused in medical history and also in didactics. The history of medical bibliography suggests original teaching paths to medical historians with connection to the main theories of medical historical knowledge development. The flourishing medical bibliographies printed between the 16(th) and 17(th)-century represent a wide didactic tool to introduce medical students to rare medical books collections. The paper offers a practical sample: the history of theories, preventive remedies and treatments of the plague, explained using the printed medical bibliography of Otto Brunfels (1530) and Johannes Antonides Van der Linden (1662)
Keywords: History of Medical Bibliography; Plague; Medical education; Medical Teaching; XVI-XVII Centuries
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Source：HISTORY OF EDUCATION & CHILDRENS LITERATURE
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