Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy by Hannah Marcus

Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

Hannah Marcus

360 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction health history politics science informative reflective medium-paced
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Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on li...

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