Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance /

Stolberg, Michael,

Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance / Michael Stolberg. - München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021] ©2022 - 1 online resource (XXIV, 613 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Entering the World of Learned Medicine -- Prologue: The "Learned" Physician. On the History of an Ideal -- Choosing a Profession -- The Study of Medicine -- Learned Habitus -- Part II: Learned Medical Practice -- From theory to practice -- Pathology -- External Causes of Illness -- Diagnosis -- Therapeutic Practice -- Diseases -- Pediatrics -- Diseases of Women -- Knowledge from Experience: The Rise of Empiricism -- Part III: Physicians, Patients, and Lay Medical Culture -- The rise of the learned medical profession -- Private Practice -- Municipal Physicians -- Court Physicians -- Everyday Practice -- The Physician-Patient Relationship -- Alternatives to Medical Treatment by Physicians -- Learned Physicians and Lay Medical Culture -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Visual sources - List of illustrations -- Manuscript Sources -- Printed Works -- Index

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Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he describes the prevailing notions of illness in the era, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, the doctor-patient relationship, and home and lay medicine.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:


In English.

9783110733549

2021943168


Medical education--History--To 1500.
Medicine--Practice--History--To 1500.
Physicians--History--To 1500.
HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century.

Renaissance medicine. academic physicians. everyday medical practice. lay medicine. pathology.

R737

610.71

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