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

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.

List of contents

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: J. Andrew Kinzelbach Mendelsohn
• Assisted by: Annemarie Kinzelbach (Editor), Kinzelbach Annemarie (Editor), J. Andrew Mendelsohn (Editor), Ruth Schilling (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032090580
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3209058-0
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: The History of Medicine in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, History of Medicine, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, Industrialisation & Industrial History, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Industrialisation and industrial history