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Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance /

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-pati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stolberg, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021]
Subjects:
Medical education > History > To 1500.
Physicians > History > To 1500.
Medicine > Practice > History > To 1500.
HISTORY > Modern > 17th Century.
Medical education
Medicine > Practice
Physicians
To 1500
Renaissance medicine.
academic physicians.
everyday medical practice.
lay medicine.
pathology.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XXIV, 613 pages)
ISBN:9783110733549
3110733544