Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Renaissance medicine; academic physicians; everyday medical practice; pathology; lay medicineDOI
10.1515/9783110733549ISBN
9783110733549, 9783110738353, 9783110733624, 9783110733549Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2021Imprint
De Gruyter OldenbourgClassification
History
European history
History: earliest times to present day
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
Social & cultural history
History of medicine