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

• VerfasserIn: Stolberg, Michael, 1957-
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,, [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXIV, 613 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

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