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Medical Practice, 1600-1900

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 371 pages

File Size : 33,75 MB

Release : 2015-11-16

Category : Medical

ISBN : 9004303324

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Drawing in particular on physicians’ casebooks, Medical Practices, 1600-1900 studies the changing nature of ordinary medical practice in early modern Europe. Combining case studies on individual German, Austrian and Swiss practitioners with a comparative analysis across the centuries, it offers the first comprehensive and systematic overview of the major aspects of premodern practitioners daily work and business – from diagnostic and therapeutic approaches and the kinds of patients treated to financial issues, record keeping and their place in contemporary society.



The History of Medical Education

Author : C. D. O'Malley

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 546 pages

File Size : 11,20 MB

Release : 2023-04-28

Category : Science

ISBN : 0520313445

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.



Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance

Author : Michael Stolberg

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 637 pages

File Size : 19,3 MB

Release : 2021-11-22

Category : History

ISBN : 3110733544

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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.



The Future of Public Health

Author : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 25,50 MB

Release : 1988-01-15

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0309581907

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"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.



Early Modern Medicine

Author : Olivia Weisser

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 367 pages

File Size : 12,82 MB

Release : 2024-03-21

Category : History

ISBN : 1003851487

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This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine. It provides an array of interpretive strategies while also highlighting new trends in the field. Each chapter serves as a study of a different type of source, including the benefits and limitations of that source and what it can reveal about the history of medicine. Contributors provide practical strategies for locating and interpreting sources, putting texts and objects into conversation, and explaining potential contradictions. A wide variety of sources, including account books, legal records, and personal letters, provide new opportunities for understanding early modern medicine and developing skills in historical analysis. Together, the chapters highlight emerging methodologies and debates, while covering a range of themes in the field, from reproductive health to hospital care to household medicine. With wide geographical breadth, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers looking to understand how to better engage with primary sources, as well as readers interested in early modern history and the history of medicine.



Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965

Author : Tizian Zumthurm

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 319 pages

File Size : 11,63 MB

Release : 2020-08-10

Category : Medical

ISBN : 9004436979

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Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, maternity care, psychiatry, and the treatment of dysentery and leprosy reveals the incoherent nature of biomedicine and not just in Africa. Reading rich archival sources against and along the grain, the author combines concepts that appeal to those interested in the history of medicine and colonialism. Through the microcosm of the hospital, Zumthurm brings to light the social worlds of Gabonese patients as well as European staff. By refusing to easily categorize colonial medical encounters, the book challenges our understanding of biomedicine as solely domineering or interactive.



Pathology in Practice

Author : Silvia De Renzi

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 397 pages

File Size : 19,22 MB

Release : 2017-12-22

Category : History

ISBN : 1317083318

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Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. Drawing on different approaches and on sources as varied as notes taken at the dissection table, legal records and learned publications, the chapters explore how autopsies informed the understanding of pathology of all those involved. With a broad geography, including Rome, Amsterdam and Geneva, the book recaptures the lost worlds of physicians, surgeons, patients, families and civic authorities as they used corpses to understand diseases and make sense of suffering. The evidence from post-mortems was not straightforward, but between 1500 and 1750 medical practitioners rose to the challenge, proposing various solutions to the difficulties they encountered and creating a remarkable body of knowledge. The book shows the scope and diversity of this tradition and how laypeople contributed their knowledge and expectations to the wide-ranging exchanges stimulated by the opening of bodies.



Civic Medicine

Author : J. Andrew Mendelsohn

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 317 pages

File Size : 16,93 MB

Release : 2019-07-30

Category : History

ISBN : 1317021398

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Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, when cities rivaled territorial states in local and global Europe and when civic doctors were central to the rise of shared, organized written information about the human and natural world. This opens the prospect of a long history of knowledge and action shaped more by community and responsibility than market or state, exchange or power.



Medicine in the Middle Ages

Author : Ian Dawson

Publisher : Enchanted Lion Books

Page : 70 pages

File Size : 36,97 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781592700370

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Book Description

Learn about how medicine was practiced long ago.



Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe

Author : Michael Stolberg

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 49,27 MB

Release : 2016-03-03

Category : History

ISBN : 1317003349

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Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the lives of ordinary people. Widely considered as the most reliable way to diagnose diseases and pregnancies it was taught at the best universities. Leading physicians prided themselves on their mastery in this field. Countless medical writings were dedicated to uroscopy and artists represented it in hundreds of illustrations and paintings. Based on a wide range of textual and visual sources, such as autobiographies, court records, medical treatises and genre painting, this book offers the first comprehensive study of the place of uroscopy in early modern medicine, culture and society and of the - gradually changing - ways in which medical practitioners, lay persons and, last but not least, artists perceived and used it.