The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750 1820 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521524575)

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 that reshaped both medical theory and physicians' professional identity. Among the most important of these factors was the emergence of a literary public sphere in Germany between 1750 and 1800, a development that exposed medical writing to new discourses such as Jena Romanticism and created the stage on which the bitter medical controversies of the 1790s would be played.

Author: Thomas H. Broman
ISBN-10: 0521524571
ISBN-13: 9780521524575
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2002
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.04w x 0.58d