Manuum munus negli ospedali tardo rinascimentali. Osservazione e manualità a fini didattici

The paper focuses, through a comparative method, on the analogies that emerge from recent research on medical education - offered in hospitals of late Renaissance - that highlights a connection between anatomical and surgical training. In particular, the ‘medici astanti’ were graduate doctors who assisted doctors or surgeons, governed nurses and had explicit teaching assignments for surgery students. The role of coordination between the various professional figures could guarantee the ‘astanti’ a first step for their subsequent career, within the hospital or universities.