Silvia De Renzi teaches history of medicine at the Open University, UK. Marco Bresadola teaches history of science at the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he is director of the MA in science communication. Maria Conforti teaches history of medicine at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy.

• Part 1: Framing the Practice 1. Pathological Dissections in Early Modern Europe: Practice and Knowledge Silvia De Renzi, Marco Bresadola and Maria Conforti 2. Humanist Post-Mortems: Philology and Therapy Gionata Liboni 3. Organising Pathological Knowledge: Théophile Bonet’s Sepulchretum and the Making of a Tradition Massimo Rinaldi 4. The Problems of Anatomia Practica and How to Solve Them: Pathological Dissection Around 1700 Marco Bresadola Part 2: Multiple Pathologies 5. Post-Mortems, Anatomical Dissections and Humoural Pathology in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries Michael Stolberg 6. Seats and Series: Dissecting Diseases in the Seventeenth Century Silvia De Renzi 7. Visible Signs, Invisible Processes: Explaining Poison in the Late Seventeenth Century Maria Conforti 8. Frederik Ruysch, Surgical Anatomy and the Amsterdam Republic of Medicine Rina Knoeff Part 3: Productive Dialogues 9. Pre- and Post-Mortem Inquiries: Assessing Poisoning in the Law Courts of Sixteenth-Century Rome Elisa Andretta 10. Dissecting Pain: Patients, Families and Medical Expertise in Early Modern Germany Annemarie Kinzelbach 11. Therapeutic Post-Mortems in and Around Eighteenth-Century Geneva Philip Rieder