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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Martin Dinges , Kay Peter Jankrift , Sabine Schlegelmilch and Michael Stolberg -- Introduction / Martin Dinges and Michael Stolberg -- Cornucopia Officinae Medicae: Medical Practice Records and Their Origin / Volker Hess and Sabine Schlegelmilch -- Doctors and Their Patients in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries / Marion Baschin , Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum and Iris Ritzmann -- Daily Business: The Organization and Finances of Doctors’ Practices / Philipp Klaas , Hubert Steinke and Alois Unterkircher -- Medicine in Practice: Knowledge, Diagnosis and Therapy / Annemarie Kinzelbach , Stephanie Neuner and Karen Nolte -- Medical Practice in Context: Religion, Family, Politics and Scientific Networks / Ruth Schilling and Kay Peter Jankrift -- ‘What a Magnificent Work a Good Physician is’: The Medical Practice of Johannes Magirus (1615–1697) / Sabine Schlegelmilch -- Observationes et Curationes Nurimbergenses: The Medical Practice of Johann Christoph Götz (1688–1733) / Annemarie Kinzelbach , Susanne Grosser , Kay Peter Jankrift and Marion Ruisinger -- Social Mobility and Medical Practice: Johann Friedrich Glaser (1707–1789) / Ruth Schilling -- Medical Bedside Training and Healthcare for the Poor in the Würzburg and Göttingen Policlinics in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / Stephanie Neuner and Karen Nolte -- Unlicensed Practice: A Lay Healer in Rural Switzerland / Alois Unterkircher and Iris Ritzmann -- Administrative and Epistemic Aspects of Medical Practice: Caesar Adolf Bloesch (1804–1863) / Lina Gafner -- Franz von Ottenthal: Local Integration of an Alpine Doctor’s Private Practice (1847–1899) / Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum , Marina Hilber and Eberhard Wolff -- A Special Kind of Practice? The Homeopath Friedrich von Bönninghausen (1828–1910) / Marion Baschin -- The Sources / Martin Dinges , Kay Peter Jankrift , Sabine Schlegelmilch and Michael Stolberg -- Bibliography / Martin Dinges , Kay Peter Jankrift , Sabine Schlegelmilch and Michael Stolberg -- Index / Martin Dinges , Kay Peter Jankrift , Sabine Schlegelmilch and Michael Stolberg.