Alessandra Foscati
Biographic Data
| ID | 5532676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandra Foscati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Foscati |
| SIGNATURE | FOSCATI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven Leuven Belgium |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8383-6270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ammalarsi e curarsi nel Medioevo
status: Published
The Shape of Sex
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550, edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia
From the Ancient Myth of the Caesars to the Medieval and Renaissance Tradition
The caesarean section performed on a living woman to save both mother and baby is first considered in gynaecological texts in the late sixteenth century after the treatise by the French physician François Rousset. It is included alongside descriptions of the post-mortem caesarean section, already practised in the Middle Ages in order to save the baby. The early seventeenth-century work by the Lusitanian physician Rodrigo de Castro is often refere…
Nonnatus dictus quod caeso defunctae matris utero prodiit’. Postmortem Caesarean Section in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Historians call sectio in mortua the act of opening the abdomen of a woman who has died during pregnancy or in childbirth in order to extract a baby. According to recent studies, the sectio is considered to be a routine practice carried out by male surgeons from the end of the Middle Ages, particularly in Italy, where the evidence of the sectio being performed by a midwife is scanty. But was it really such a popular operation at the time, and can…
Nonnatus dictus quod caeso defunctae matris utero prodiit’. Postmortem Caesarean Section in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Historians call sectio in mortua the act of opening the abdomen of a woman who has died during pregnancy or in childbirth in order to extract a baby. According to recent studies, the sectio is considered to be a routine practice carried out by male surgeons from the end of the Middle Ages, particularly in Italy, where the evidence of the sectio being performed by a midwife is scanty. But was it really such a popular operation at the time, and can…
Nonnatus dictus quod caeso defunctae matris utero prodiit’. Postmortem Caesarean Section in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Historians call sectio in mortua the act of opening the abdomen of a woman who has died during pregnancy or in childbirth in order to extract a baby. According to recent studies, the sectio is considered to be a routine practice carried out by male surgeons from the end of the Middle Ages, particularly in Italy, where the evidence of the sectio being performed by a midwife is scanty. But was it really such a popular operation at the time, and can…
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550, edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia
From the Ancient Myth of the Caesars to the Medieval and Renaissance Tradition
The caesarean section performed on a living woman to save both mother and baby is first considered in gynaecological texts in the late sixteenth century after the treatise by the French physician François Rousset. It is included alongside descriptions of the post-mortem caesarean section, already practised in the Middle Ages in order to save the baby. The early seventeenth-century work by the Lusitanian physician Rodrigo de Castro is often refere…
The Shape of Sex
Ammalarsi e curarsi nel Medioevo
status: Published
History of Medicine Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Caesarean section (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · Medical History and Innovations (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)