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Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence
by Katharine Park
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1985, 298pp, HC
[Florence, 14-15C]

Chapters
1. The Guild
   • Doctors in the Constitution of the Guild
   • The Guild and Professional Life
   • Doctors and Plague
   • Doctors and Guild Office
2. The Doctors
   • Doctors and Other Healers
   • Size of the Profession
   • Classes of Practitioners
   • Immigration and the Plague
3. The Medical Marketplace
   • The State as Client
   • Religious Institutions as Clients
   • Private Practice
4. Medical Careers
   • Choosing a Career: Education and Training
   • Establishing a Reputation: Teaching and Writing
   • Building a Clientele: Contacts and Contracts
   • How Can You Keep Them Down on the Farm?
5. Doctors in Florntine Society
   • Wealth and Income
   • Social Origins and Social Standing
   • Social Mobility
   • Doctors and the Gente Nuova
6. Doctors in Forentine Culture
   • Doctors' Libraries
   • The Culture of Academic Medicine
   • The Culture of Medical Practice
   • Doctors and the Florentine Renaissance

Tables

Table 1-1. Unmatriculated Doctors and the Guild

Table 1-2. The Cini and Toscanelli Families

Table 1-3. Proportion of Consulships Held by Doctors

Table 1-4. Distribution of Consulships among Doctors

Table 2-1. Size of the Florentine Medical Profession

Table 2-2. Classes of Doctors in City Tax Rolls

Table 2-3. Immigrants in the Guild Matriculation Lists

Table 4-1. Wealth of Doctors and Other Occupational Groups (1427)

Table 5-1. Relative Size of Doctors' Assessments (1352)

Table 5-2. Relative Wealth of Doctors' Households (1427)