Leiden: Clio Medica 96, 2015. — 371 p.
Drawing on casebooks and other practice records and linking case studies with synthetic chapters, Medical Practices, 1600-1900 offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the changing nature of ordinary and place medical practice in early modern Europe.
About the Contributors.
Cornucopia Officinae Medicae: Medical Practice Records and Their Origin.
Doctors and Their Patients in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries.
Daily Business: The Organization and Finances of Doctors’ Practices.
Medicine in Practice: Knowledge, Diagnosis and Therapy.
Medical Practice in Context: Religion, Family, Politics and Scientific Networks.
‘What a Magnificent Work a Good Physician is’: The Medical Practice of Johannes Magirus (1615–1697).
Observationes et Curationes Nurimbergenses: The Medical Practice of Johann Christoph Götz (1688–1733).
Social Mobility and Medical Practice: Johann Friedrich Glaser (1707–1789).
Medical Bedside Training and Healthcare for the Poor in the Würzburg and Göttingen Policlinics in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.
Unlicensed Practice: A Lay Healer in Rural Switzerland.
Administrative and Epistemic Aspects of Medical Practice: Caesar Adolf Bloesch (1804–1863).
Franz von Ottenthal: Local Integration of an Alpine Doctor’s Private Practice (1847–1899).
A Special Kind of Practice? The Homeopath Friedrich von Bönninghausen (1828–1910).
The Sources.