LEADER 02946oam 2200517I 450 001 9910154604303321 005 20230808200721.0 010 $a1-351-91546-0 010 $a1-138-25323-5 010 $a1-315-24824-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315248240 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965831 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758399 035 $a(OCoLC)965444366 035 $a(BIP)63377572 035 $a(BIP)13701337 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965831 100 $a20180706e20162009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aNegotiating the French pox in early modern Germany /$fClaudia Stein 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (254 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aThe History of Medicine in Context 300 $aFirst published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-6008-7 311 08$a1-351-91547-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. What was the French pox? -- 2. Sickness and poverty in sixteenth-century Augsburg -- 3. Negotiating the pox -- 4. Treating the pox. 330 $aThis book explores the identity of the 'French disease' (alias the 'French pox' or 'Morbus Gallicus') in the German Imperial city of Augsburg between 1495 and 1630. Rejecting the imposition of modern conceptions of disease upon the past, it reveals how early modern medical theory facilitated enormous flexibility in defining disease, and how disease identification was a local matter, and one of constant negotiation and renegotiation. Drawing on a wealth of primary source material this work combines concern with the conceptualisation of the disease with its practical application, and argues for the inseparability of both. It focuses on how theoretical understanding of the pox shaped the various therapeutic reactions, and vice versa. It exemplifies this in the specific socio-cultural context of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Augsburg, through an investigation of the city's municipal and private pox hospitals. Combining medical, religious, economic, municipal and institutional history this book offers a fascinating insight into how early modern society came to terms with disease both in a practical and theoretical sense. This revised English translation of Dr Stein's original German book adds new layers of understanding to a fascinating but complex subject. 410 0$aHistory of medicine in context. 606 $aSyphilis$zGermany$zAugsburg$xHistory$y16th century 615 0$aSyphilis$xHistory 676 $a614.5/4720943375 686 $a44.00$2bcl 700 $aStein$b Claudia.$0981998 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154604303321 996 $aNegotiating the French pox in early modern Germany$92241170 997 $aUNINA