Although the physicians and surgeons of eighteenth-century Germany
have attracted previous scholarly inquiry, little is known about
their day-to-day activities -- and even less about the ways in
which those activities fit into the economic, political, and social
structures of the time. In this groundbreaking work, Mary Lindemann
brings together the scholarly traditions of the history of
structures, mentalities, and everyday life to shed light on this
complex relationship.
Opening with a discussion of the interplay of state and society
in the independent German state of Braunschweig-WolfenbA1/4ttel,
Lindemann explains how medical policy was "made" at all levels. She
describes the striking array of healers active in the eighteenth
century: from physicians to all those consulted in medical
situations -- friends and neighbors, executioners and
barber-surgeons, bathmasters, midwives, and apothecaries. She
surveys the available vital statistics and more personal narrative
accounts, such as reports on the "Increase and Decrease of the
Inhabitants," and medical topographies. Lindemann also examines the
process of becoming a patient and explores the effects of the
social, economic, political, and cultural milieus on how medicine
was practiced in the everyday world of the village, the
neighborhood, and the town.
"Mary Lindemann has built up, over the last decade, an enviable
reputation as a social historian of Germany and as a historian of
German medicine. Many scholars have been looking forward to a
book-length account from her of medicine and health, doctors and
patients, in eighteenth-century Germany, and the present
[volume]... exceeds all reasonable expectations." -- Roy Porter,
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
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