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Civic Medicine: Physician, Polity, and Pen in Early Modern Europe (The History of Medicine in Context) by J. Andrew [VNV Mendelsohn; Annemarie Kinzelbach; Ruth [VNV Schilling is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, when cities rivaled territorial states in local and global Europe and when civic doctors were central to the rise of shared, organized written information about the human and natural world. This opens the prospect of a long history of knowledge and action shaped more by community and responsibility than market or state, exchange or power. ** Review " Civic Medicine offers a striking and pathbreaking perspective on medical knowledge in early modern Europe. Transcending influential approaches in which physicians and patients are viewed as caught up in the networks of the medical marketplace or else of modernising territorial states, Mendelsohn and his team focus instead on the role and activities of physicians in civic office across the continent. This provides a stimulating, holistic vision of the early modern physician and his world, now grounded in an enriched sense of community rather than the market or the state." – Colin Jones, co

Author

J. Andrew [VNV Mendelsohn; Annemarie Kinzelbach; Ruth [VNV Schilling

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317021407

Subjects

Medical, History, Social Science