Autore: Rinaldi, Massimo
Titolo: "Compendia vel potius dispendia". Girolamo Mercuriale e gli strumenti della formazione medica
Periodico: Medicina & Storia (Online)
Anno: 2006 - Volume: 6 - Fascicolo: 11 - Pagina iniziale: 45 - Pagina finale: 62

In 1607, soon after the death of Girolamo Mercuriale, Johann Georg Schenck published a collection of short texts focussing on the education of the physician. Among other things, in it also appears a little treatise by the famous professor in which he reflects upon some important issues of the pedagogical debate of the time. In fact, he deals with the most appropriate and efficacious learning instruments and techniques that ought to be used by masters and students with the aim of transmitting knowledge. Mercuriale strongly refuses the use of commentaries and compendia. In his view, on the one hand, they render the understanding of tradition more difficult; on the other hand, they offer completely inadequate fragments of acquaintance with such a complex art. Therefore, he advises his readers to entrust themselves to the patient work of collecting and organizing data taken from the classical sources. As necessary step towards knowledge, he requires the compilation of commonplace books, whose structure and modes of formulation he connects to the specificity of his subject. This technique transforms an almost infinite mass of notions into manageable discrete units, thus denying the diminutive approach to medical knowledge which sees it as forever predicated by an institutive lack of rational certainty.




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