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Record Nr.

UNISA996449435003316

Autore

Stolberg Michael <1957->

Titolo

Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance / / Michael Stolberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

München ; ; Wien : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]

©2022

ISBN

3-11-073354-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIV, 613 p.)

Disciplina

610.71

Soggetti

HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.