Health & healing in eighteenth-century Germany
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Health & healing in eighteenth-century Germany
（The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, 114th series,
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996
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Health and healing in 18th century Germany
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Bibliography: p. [459]-488
Includes index
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ISBN 9780801852817
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This work looks how the day-to-day activities of physicians and surgeons of 18th-century Germany, fit into the economic, political and social structures of the time. Opening with a discussion of the interplay of the state and society in the independent German state of Braunschweig-Wolfenbeuttel, the author explains how medical policy was "made" at all levels. She describes the array of healers active in 18th-century society: from physicians to all those consulted in medical situations - friends, neighbours, executioners and barber-surgeons, bathmasters, midwives and apothecaries. The book surveys the available statistics and more personal narrative accounts, such as reports on the "Increase and Decrease of the Inhabitants", and medical topographies. It also examines the process of becoming a patient and explores the effects of the social, political and cultural milieux on how medicine was practiced in the everyday world of the village, the neighbourhood and the town.
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: pbk ISBN 9780801867859
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Although the physicians and surgeons of eighteenth-century Germany have attracted previous scholarly inquiry, little is known about their day-to-day activities-and even less about the ways in which those activities fit into the economic, political, and social structures of the time. In this groundbreaking work, Mary Lindemann brings together the scholarly traditions of the history of structures, mentalities, and everyday life to shed light on this complex relationship. Opening with a discussion of the interplay of state and society in the independent German state of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel, Lindemann explains how medical policy was "made" at all levels. She describes the striking array of healers active in the eighteenth century: from physicians to all those consulted in medical situations-friends and neighbors, executioners and barber-surgeons, bathmasters, midwives, and apothecaries. She surveys the available vital statistics and more personal narrative accounts, such as reports on the "Increase and Decrease of the Inhabitants," and medical topographies.
Lindemann also examines the process of becoming a patient and explores the effects of the social, economic, political, and cultural milieus on how medicine was practiced in the everyday world of the village, the neighborhood, and the town.
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