Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 17501820

Zusammenfassung By examining German university medicine between 1750 and 1820! this book presents a new interpretation of the emergence of modern medical science. In contrast to the standard picture of the medical profession before 1800 which treats physicians almost exclusively as healers! Thomas H. Broman argues that healing was only one aspect of a complex professional identity in 1750. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Physicians in eighteenth-century Germany; 2. Fractures and new alignments; 3. Physicians and writers: medical theory and the emergence of the public sphere; 4. The art of healing; 5. Breaking the shackles of history: the Brunonian revolution in Germany; 6. German medicine during the restoration; Conclusion: disciplines, professions, and the public sphere; Index.

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• Authors: Thomas H. Broman, Thomas H. (University of Wisconsin Broman, Broman Thomas H.
• Assisted by: Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521524575
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52457-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Germany, MEDICAL / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, C 1700 To C 1800