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Book SynopsisDrawing 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.
Trade ReviewIn dem vorzustellenden Sammelband werden acht Projekte zu städtischen und ländlichen Arztpraxen (mit Forschenden aus Berlin, Bern, Ingolstadt, Innsbruck/Bozen, Stuttgart,Würzburg und Zürich) im Zeitraum vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zum Fin de Siècle von 20 Autorinnen und Autoren vorgestellt. Dazu haben die Herausgeber eine sehr gelungene Zweiteilung gewählt. - Christina Vanja, Kassel, Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 44 (2017) 3, 571-573
Table of ContentsIntroduction Martin Dinges and Michael Stolberg PART 1 1. Cornucopia Officinae Medicae: Medical Practice Records and Their Origin Volker Hess and Sabine Schlegelmilch 2. Doctors and Their Patients in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Marion Baschin, Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum and Iris Ritzmann 3. Daily Business: The Organization and Finances of Doctors’ Practices Philipp Klaas, Hubert Steinke and Alois Unterkircher 4. Medicine in Practice: Knowledge, Diagnosis and Therapy Annemarie Kinzelbach, Stephanie Neuner and Karen Nolte 5. Medical Practice in Context: Religion, Family, Politics and Scientific Networks Ruth Schilling and Kay Peter Jankrift PART 2 6. ‘What a Magnificent Work a Good Physician is’: The Medical Practice of Johannes Magirus (1615–1697) Sabine Schlegelmilch 7. Observationes et Curationes Nurimbergenses: The Medical Practice of Johann Christoph Götz (1688–1733) Annemarie Kinzelbach, Susanne Grosser, Kay Peter Jankrift and Marion Ruisinger 8. Social Mobility and Medical Practice: Johann Friedrich Glaser (1707–1789) Ruth Schilling 9. 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 10. Unlicensed Practice: A Lay Healer in Rural Switzerland Alois Unterkircher and Iris Ritzmann 11. Administrative and Epistemic Aspects of Medical Practice: Caesar Adolf Bloesch (1804–1863) Lina Gafner 12. Franz von Ottenthal: Local Integration of an Alpine Doctor’s Private Practice (1847–1899) Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum, Marina Hilber and Eberhard Wolff 13. A Special Kind of Practice? The Homeopath Friedrich von Bönninghausen (1828–1910) Marion Baschin
