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From the Womb to the Body Politic: Raising the Nation in Enlightenment Russia by Anna Kuxhausen (review)

medical practice”; p. 59). Rhetoric was often useful to physicians, but dialectic had a far more important role in medical theory than is usually acknowledged here. Some attention to medical education—especially the university arts course, which included dialectic as well as rhetoric—would have helped. The enthusiasm of the editors is unfortunately not always matched by their diligence. At page 131, Gross refers to Johannes Placotomus’s 1552 “Oration on Correct Speech, or Precepts of Medicine,” but gives the Latin title correctly in a note as Oratio de ratione discendi, ac praecipue medicinam—actually then, an “Oration on the Method of Learning, and particularly Medicine.” An eye slip and a mistranslation are perhaps forgivable (though the translations of Melanchthon are also unreliable); but he goes on to claim that “in a fashion resonant with the psychoanalytic methods of our era, Placotomus argues that young doctors must be trained to recognize the ways in which everyday language can be a site for curative, psychosomatic intervention.” What Placotomus briefly acknowledges in this work is the pedagogical utility of common subjects (“vulgares materias”) and discussions that are unadorned (“sine ornatu”), his main concern being with humanistic methods for studying Greek texts and learning Galenic doctrine. Readers will draw their own conclusions about this, and about the many typographical errors in the book. It is a shame to have to complain about such shortcomings in what is otherwise an enjoyable and stimulating collection.