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