Civic Medicine: Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781472453587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 316 str.

Annemarie Kinzelbach; Andrew Mendelsohn

Opis

Communities across Europe for eight centuries contracted with doctors, who provided citizen care, helped govern, and led in public life. Civic Medicine defines this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, opening a history of knowledge and action shaped more by community than market or state.

Spis treści

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. De officiis: 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