Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement

Teresa Hollerbach studied History of Science and History of Technology in Berlin and Florence. She completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Technical University of Berlin with a dissertation on the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636) and his role in the context of the process of the emergence and establishment of methods of quantification in medicine. Afterwards, she researched the role of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in the pedophile debate in West Germany of the 1960s and 1970s. Processes of scientific knowledge production and transformation, the epistemology of practical knowledge, and material culture studies are her main research interests. Since 2022, she works in the field of science communication.

• Acknowledgements.- Preface (Dr. Matteo Valleriani).- Introduction.- List of Figures.- Abbreviations and Short Titles.- Chapter 1. Sanctorius Sanctorius—Between Koper and Venice.- Chapter 2. Sanctorius’s Galenism.- Chapter 3. Sanctorius’s Work in its Practical Context.- Chapter 4. Quantification in Galenic Medicine.- Chapter 5. Quantification and Certainty.- Chapter 6. The Measuring Instruments.- Chapter 7. Sanctorius Revisited.- List of Appendices.