Medical Practice, 1600-1900: Physicians and Their Patients

Martin Dinges, Prof. Dr. phil., deputy director of the Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart, associate professor for modern history at the Universität Mannheim. Academic training: law, history and political science in Cologne, Mainz, Bonn, Berlin and Bordeaux, Ph.D in history (Freie Universität Berlin, 1986), habilitation in modern history (Mannheim, 1991). Kay Peter Jankrift, Prof. Dr. phil., associate professor for medieval history at the Universität Münster. Academic training: history, semitic languages and islamic science at the universities of Münster and Tel Aviv, PhD in medieval history (Münster, 1995), habilitation in medieval history (Münster, 2002). Sabine Schlegelmilch, Dr. phil., Assistant professor at Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Würzburg. Academic training: classics and German literature in Würzburg and London. Interdisciplinary PhD in classics, archeology, egyptology (Würzburg, 2008). Michael Stolberg, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil., head of the Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Würzburg. Academic training: MD-thesis in history of medicine (Munich, 1986), habilitation in medical history and medical sociology (Munich 1992), PhD in history (Munich, 1994).

Drawing on casebooks and other practice records and linking case studies with synthetic chapters, Medical Practices, 1600-1900 offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the changing nature of ordinary and place medical practice in early modern Europe.