Medicine at the courts of Europe, 1500-1837
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Bibliographic Information
Medicine at the courts of Europe, 1500-1837
(The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine)
Routledge, 1990
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A collection of essays that examine the diverse range of medical activity in a variety of European courts from the sixteenth to nineteenth century. The contributors paint a vivid portrait of the changing nature of medical practice in court life. This book should be of interest to upper level students of history of medicine, social history and European history.
Table of Contents
- introduction Vivian Nutton 1. De morbis aulicis
- on diseases found at the court Werner-Friedrich Kummel 2. Medicine at the Papal court in the sixteenth century Richard Palmer 3. The Court physician and Paracelsianism Hugh Trevor-Roper 4. Prince-practitioning and the direction of medical roles at the German Court: Maurice of Hesse-Kassel and his physicians Bruce T. Moran 5. The literary image of the medecins du roi in the literature of the Grand Siecle Laurence Brockliss 6. Court phsyicaians and state regulation in eighteenth-century Prussia: the emergence of medical science and the demystification of the body Johanna Geyer-Kordesch 7. Medicine at the Court of Catherine the Great of Russia J.T. Alexander 8. The medecins du roi at the end of the Ancient Regime and in the French Revolution Colin Jones 9. Medicine at the English Court 1688-1837 W.F. Bynum Index.
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