Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stolberg, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021]
Temas:
To 1500
Medical education > History > To 1500.
Physicians > History > To 1500.
Medicine > Practice > History > To 1500.
HISTORY > Modern > 17th Century.
Medical education
Medicine > Practice
Physicians
Renaissance medicine.
academic physicians.
everyday medical practice.
lay medicine.
pathology.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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