TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mendelsohn,J.Andrew
AU  - Kinzelbach,Annemarie
AU  - Schilling,Ruth
TI  - Civic Medicine: Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe
T2  - The History of Medicine in Context Series
SN  - 9781317021407
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Florence
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Civic Medicine -- 1. Public Practice: The European Longue Dur�ee of Knowing for Health and Polity -- PART I: Scholar in Town, Scholar in Office -- 2. The Many Uses of Writing: A Humanist Physician in Sixteenth-Century Prague -- 3. Promoting a Good Physician: Letters of Application to German Civic Authorities, 1500-1700 -- 4. Deofficiis: Doctors' Oaths and Appointments in Early Modern Nuremberg -- PART II: Evaluating, Reporting -- 5. Reporting for Action: Forms of Writing between Medicine and Polity in Milan, 1580-1650 -- 6. Negotiating on Paper: Councilors, Medical Officers, and Patients in an Early Modern City -- PART III: Documenting, Locating -- 7. Accountability, Autobiography, and Belonging: The Working Journal of a Sixteenth-Century Diplomatic Physician between Venice and Damascus -- 8. A Sense of Place: Town Physicians and the Resources of Locality in Early Modern Medicine -- 9. Physical City: A Royal Physician's Warsaw -- PART IV: Translating, Translocating -- 10. Transformative Itineraries and Communities of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: The Case of Lazare Rivi�ere's The Practice of Physick -- 11. Trading Information: The City of Nuremberg and the Birth of a Latin Medical Weekly -- Index
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