ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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part I|68 pages
Scholar in Town, Scholar in Office
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chapter 3|22 pages
Promoting a Good Physician
Letters of Application to German Civic Authorities, 1500–1700
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part II|48 pages
Evaluating, Reporting
chapter 5|27 pages
Reporting for Action
Forms of Writing between Medicine and Polity in Milan, 1580–1650
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chapter 6|20 pages
Negotiating on Paper
Councilors, Medical Officers, and Patients in an Early Modern City
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part III|73 pages
Documenting, Locating
chapter 7|28 pages
Accountability, Autobiography, and Belonging
The Working Journal of a Sixteenth-Century Diplomatic Physician between Venice and Damascus
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chapter 8|25 pages
A Sense of Place
Town Physicians and the Resources of Locality in Early Modern Medicine
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part IV|47 pages
Translating, Translocating
chapter 10|25 pages
Transformative Itineraries and Communities of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
The Case of Lazare Rivière's The Practice of Physick
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chapter 11|21 pages
Trading Information
The City of Nuremberg and the Birth of a Latin Medical Weekly
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