Format:
1 online resource (333 pages)
ISBN:
9781317021407
Series Statement:
The History of Medicine in Context
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472453587
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032090580
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Civic medicine London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 ISBN 9781472453587
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032090580
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
;
Arzt
;
Medizin
;
Wissenschaftstransfer
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Schilling, Ruth 1976-
