Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance

The Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) is an international institute of advanced studies in the history of medicine and science based at the Domus Comeliana in Pisa.[1] The centre belongs to the Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comel and is currently the major Italian institution devoted to the study of medical humanities.

Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance
Official Emblem
Other name
CSMBR
Motto'Florescat Flos Sapientiae'
TypeInternational Research Centre
Established2018
Parent institution
Institutio Santoriana - Fondazione Comel
AffiliationUniversity of Exeter - University of Padua - Studio Firmano
PresidentVivian Nutton
Vice-presidentJonathan Barry
DirectorFabrizio Bigotti
Address
Via Cardinale Pietro Maffi, 48
,
Pisa
,
56126
,
Italy

43°25′57″N 10°14′07″E
Websitehttps://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/


History

The CSMBR was established in January 2018 after the endowment of the Institutio Santoriana – Fondazione Comel to carry on the scientific legacy of the Italian physician, scientist, inventor and philosopher Santorio Santorio (1561-1636), who introduced the quantitative method to medicine and is reputed the father of quantitative experimental physiology,[2][3][4] pursuant to the will of Prof. Marcello Comel (1902–1996)[5][6][7] founder of the institution.

Location

The premises of the CSMBR are in the Domus Comeliana, former private residence of Marcello Comel, located next to the Leaning Tower in Piazza dei Miracoli.

Domus Comeliana

Organisation

The CSMBR is run by a committee of scholars[8] that works in cooperation with three formal affiliates, the Centre for Medical History (CMH), University of Exeter, the Centre for the History of Medicine of the University of Padua, and the Studio Firmano for the History of Medicine and Science. The founder and current director of the CSMBR is the intellectual historian Fabrizio Bigotti while the President is the British historian of medicine Vivian Nutton.

Mission
Interior Garden of the Domus Comeliana

The core mission of the CSMBR is to further the values of humanism and the advancement of scientific knowledge as inspired by the intellectual, cultural, and social development of the European Medical Renaissance (1300–1700).

Fundamental Principles

The CSMBR community takes inspiration from the principles of Renaissance Humanism, meant as the commitment to acknowledging, respecting, and developing the human potential proper to each individual. In accordance with these principles, central to the CSMBR academic practice is the recovery and revival of classical tradition while the scholarly work at large is intended to allow each individual to form their own opinion, as freely and independently as possible. As a result, the CSMBR neither seeks nor promotes any direct political goal being constituted as an independent research institute, open to scholars of any nationality, without discrimination of ethnicity, gender, age, political, religious, or sexual orientation.

CSMBR Official Stamp

Prizes and Publications

The Centre provides awards and travel grants, such as the Santorio Award for Excellence in Research,[9] the Santorio Fellowship for Medical Humanities and Science,[10] while encouraging international cooperation through the biannual VivaMente Conference in the History of Ideas.[11]

In partnership with Palgrave-MacMillan (Springer) the CSMBR sponsors the series Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (PSMEMM) The series focuses on the intellectual tradition of western medicine as related to the philosophies, institutions, practices, and technologies that developed throughout the medieval and early modern period (500-1800). It seeks to explore the range of interactions between various conceptualisations of the body, including their import for the arts (e.g. literature, painting, music, dance, and architecture) and the way different medical traditions overlapped and borrowed from each other. The series hosts contributions Santorio Awardees and is particularly keen on contributions coming from young authors.


References
  1. Amiri, Peyman. "The Kiln, the Alembic, and the Clockwork: Inside the CSMBR Summer School | Premodern Healthscaping". Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  2. Eknoyan, G. (1999). "Santorio Sanctorius (1561-1636) - founding father of metabolic balance studies". American Journal of Nephrology. 19 (2): 226–233. doi:10.1159/000013455. ISSN 0250-8095. PMID 10213823.
  3. Bigotti, Fabrizio (February 2017). "A Previously Unknown Path to Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth Century: Santorio's Marginalia to the Commentaria in Primam Fen Primi Libri Canonis Avicennae (1625)". Ambix. 64 (1): 29–42. doi:10.1080/00026980.2017.1287550. ISSN 1745-8234. PMC 5470109. PMID 28350287.
  4. Bigotti, Fabrizio; Taylor, David (2017). "The Pulsilogium of Santorio: New Light on Technology and Measurement in Early Modern Medicine". Societate Si Politica. 11 (2): 53–113. ISSN 2067-7812. PMC 6407692. PMID 30854144.
  5. "The founder". Fondazione Comel. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  6. "SIUSA | Archivi di personalità - Comèl (Comel) Marcello". siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  7. Comèl, Marcello (1981). L'uomo nel suo ambiente: fisiologia ambientale, ecofisiologia e fisiecologia (in Italian). Domus.
  8. "Scientific Committee". CSMBR - Fondazione Comel (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  9. "Santorio Award | History of Science Society". Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  10. "SANTORIO FELLOWSHIP FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND SCIENCE 2018 | Conecta". SANTORIO FELLOWSHIP FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND SCIENCE 2018 | Conecta. 2018-04-13. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  11. "VivaMente". CSMBR - Fondazione Comel (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-07-30.
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