Medical practice, 1600-1900 : : physicians and their patients / / edited by Martin Dinges [and thee others] ; translated by Margot Saar.

• TeilnehmendeR: Dinges, Martin, 1953-; Saar, Margot,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill-Rodopi,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Clio Medica 96.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (371 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Cornucopia Officinae Medicae: Medical Practice Records and Their Origin /; Doctors and Their Patients in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries /; Daily Business: The Organization and Finances of Doctors’ Practices /; Medicine in Practice: Knowledge, Diagnosis and Therapy /; Medical Practice in Context: Religion, Family, Politics and Scientific Networks /; ‘What a Magnificent Work a Good Physician is’: The Medical Practice of Johannes Magirus (1615–1697) /; Observationes et Curationes Nurimbergenses: The Medical Practice of Johann Christoph Götz (1688–1733) /; Social Mobility and Medical Practice: Johann Friedrich Glaser (1707–1789) /; Medical Bedside Training and Healthcare for the Poor in the Würzburg and Göttingen Policlinics in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century /; Unlicensed Practice: A Lay Healer in Rural Switzerland /; Administrative and Epistemic Aspects of Medical Practice: Caesar Adolf Bloesch (1804–1863) /; Franz von Ottenthal: Local Integration of an Alpine Doctor’s Private Practice (1847–1899) /; A Special Kind of Practice? The Homeopath Friedrich von Bönninghausen (1828–1910) /; The Sources /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004303324
• ISSN: 0045-7183
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Martin Dinges [and thee others] ; translated by Margot Saar.

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.