Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance

Stolberg, Michael

Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance - Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021 - 1 electronic resource (613 p.)

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Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he describes the prevailing notions of illness in the era, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, the doctor–patient relationship, and home and lay medicine.


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English

9783110733549 9783110733549 9783110738353 9783110733624

10.1515/9783110733549 doi


History
European history
History: earliest times to present day
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
Social & cultural history
History of medicine

Renaissance medicine academic physicians everyday medical practice pathology lay medicine