Civic Medicine : : Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe.
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| Superior document: | The History of Medicine in Context Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Florence : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2019. ©2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The History of Medicine in Context Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (333 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Table
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Civic Medicine
- 1. Public Practice: The European Longue Durée of Knowing for Health and Polity
- PART I: Scholar in Town, Scholar in Office
- 2. The Many Uses of Writing: A Humanist Physician in Sixteenth-Century Prague
- 3. Promoting a Good Physician: Letters of Application to German Civic Authorities, 1500-1700
- 4. Deofficiis: Doctors' Oaths and Appointments in Early Modern Nuremberg
- PART II: Evaluating, Reporting
- 5. Reporting for Action: Forms of Writing between Medicine and Polity in Milan, 1580-1650
- 6. Negotiating on Paper: Councilors, Medical Officers, and Patients in an Early Modern City
- PART III: Documenting, Locating
- 7. Accountability, Autobiography, and Belonging: The Working Journal of a Sixteenth-Century Diplomatic Physician between Venice and Damascus
- 8. A Sense of Place: Town Physicians and the Resources of Locality in Early Modern Medicine
- 9. Physical City: A Royal Physician's Warsaw
- PART IV: Translating, Translocating
- 10. Transformative Itineraries and Communities of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: The Case of Lazare Rivière's The Practice of Physick
- 11. Trading Information: The City of Nuremberg and the Birth of a Latin Medical Weekly
- Index.