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Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany (Paperback)
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Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany (Paperback)
Series: The History of Medicine in Context
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This book explores the identity of the 'French disease' (alias the
'French pox' or 'Morbus Gallicus') in the German Imperial city of
Augsburg between 1495 and 1630. Rejecting the imposition of modern
conceptions of disease upon the past, it reveals how early modern
medical theory facilitated enormous flexibility in defining
disease, and how disease identification was a local matter, and one
of constant negotiation and renegotiation. Drawing on a wealth of
primary source material this work combines concern with the
conceptualisation of the disease with its practical application,
and argues for the inseparability of both. It focuses on how
theoretical understanding of the pox shaped the various therapeutic
reactions, and vice versa. It exemplifies this in the specific
socio-cultural context of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
Augsburg, through an investigation of the city's municipal and
private pox hospitals. Combining medical, religious, economic,
municipal and institutional history this book offers a fascinating
insight into how early modern society came to terms with disease
both in a practical and theoretical sense. This revised English
translation of Dr Stein's original German book adds new layers of
understanding to a fascinating but complex subject.
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