The transformation of German academic medicine, 1750-1820
By: Thomas H. Broman.
Series: Cambridge history of medicine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Medicine -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.; Medicine -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.; Physicians -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.; Physicians -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
Description: By examining German university medicine between 1750 and 1820, this book presents a new interpretation of the emergence of modern medical science. It demonstrates that the development of modern medicine as a profession linking theory and practice did not emerge suddenly from the revolutionary transformation of Europe at the opening of the nineteenth century, as Foucault and others have argued. Instead, Thomas H. Broman points to cultural and institutional changes occurring during the second half of the eighteenth century as reshaping both medical theory and the physician's professional identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.