Author: Gideon Manning

Gideon Manning studies medical history, with scholarship examining early modern science, philosophy, and medical practice. He coedited Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine with Cynthia Klestinec. Published by Springer, the collection is subtitled Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi and brings together studies reflecting the range of Siraisi’s influence on the field. Its chapters address medical teaching, learned physicians, institutions, texts, and the practical settings in which medical knowledge developed. The volume’s organization emphasizes connections among intellectual history, professional roles, and everyday practice rather than treating medicine as a sequence of discoveries. Manning’s own academic work on early modern thought makes him a fitting editor for this interdisciplinary tribute, while Klestinec contributes expertise in Renaissance medicine and education. Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine serves both as a festschrift for Siraisi and as a research collection showing how historians reconstruct medicine through books, universities, practitioners, patients, and civic institutions.