Learning to Cut
Surgical Training and Practice, 1450–1800Edited by Maria Pia Donato, Elaine Leong, and Tillmann Taape
University College London, 2026
The first-ever volume to offer a broader European narrative on surgical training and education in the early modern era.
This volume brings together case studies from the French, Italian, German, and English contexts to reveal diverse modes of surgical teaching and learning that were shaped by local contexts in early modern towns and cities. The chapters reveal the many spaces where practitioners learned and experienced surgery, shedding new light on the practice of early modern surgery.
