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A new order of medicine : the rise of physicians in Reformation Nuremberg /

The sixteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the number of educated physicians practicing in German cities. Concentrating on Nuremberg, A New Order of Medicine follows the intertwined careers of municipal physicians as they encountered the challenges of the Reformation city for the first tim...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Murphy, Hannah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : inventing medical reform
  • The civic life of recipes
  • Encountering the city
  • Anatomy and the civic body
  • Reading medicine
  • Correspondence and consensus
  • Ordering medicine in practice and print
  • Conclusion : ambivalences and outcomes
  • Epilogue : remembering reform and forgetting physicians.