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Medical Practice, 1600-1900 : Physicians and Their Patients.

Dinges, Martin.

Medical Practice, 1600-1900 : Physicians and Their Patients. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (371 pages) - Clio Medica Series ; v.96 . - Clio Medica Series .

Intro -- Medical Practice, 1600-1900: Physicians and Their Patients -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- PART 1 -- 1: Cornucopia Officinae Medicae: Medical Practice Records and Their Origin -- 2: Doctors and Their Patients in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries -- 3: Daily Business: The Organization and Finances of Doctors' Practices -- 4: Medicine in Practice: Knowledge, Diagnosis and Therapy -- 5: Medical Practice in Context: Religion, Family, Politics and Scientific Networks -- PART 2 -- 6: 'What a Magnificent Work a Good Physician is': The Medical Practice of Johannes Magirus (1615-1697) -- 7: Observationes et Curationes Nurimbergenses: The Medical Practice of Johann Christoph Götz (1688-1733) -- 8: Social Mobility and Medical Practice: Johann Friedrich Glaser (1707-1789) -- 9: Medical Bedside Training and Healthcare for the Poor in the Würzburg and Göttingen Policlinics in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 10: Unlicensed Practice: A Lay Healer in Rural Switzerland -- 11: Administrative and Epistemic Aspects of Medical Practice: Caesar Adolf Bloesch (1804-1863) -- 12: Franz von Ottenthal: Local Integration of an Alpine Doctor's Private Practice (1847-1899) -- 13: A Special Kind of Practice? The Homeopath Friedrich von Bönninghausen (1828-1910) -- The Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.

Drawing on casebooks and other practice records and linking case studies with synthetic chapters, Medical Practices, 1600-1900 offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the changing nature of ordinary and place medical practice in early modern Europe.

9789004303324


Medicine-Practice-Europe-History.


Electronic books.

R729.5.G4 .M435 2016

610.68

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