Medicine at the courts of Europe, 1500-1837
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Medicine at the courts of Europe, 1500-1837
（The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine）
Routledge, 1990
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Includes index
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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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