Illness, therapy and dying in late early modern medicine: Changing concepts between baroque period and the first half of the 19th century | History of Sciences and Technology Journal

Abstract

Between the 17th and the 19th century medical science and practice underwent profound changes which led to the professionalization of medicine. Thanks to many significant medical discoveries body perception, diagnostic and therapeutic methods changed. The aim of this theoretical study is to describe some important transformations of early modern medical thinking which influenced significantly period concepts of illness, art of diagnostics, therapy and attitudes of medicine and its performers towards ill and dying person. The emphasis is placed on the second half of the 18th and on the beginning of the 19th century.

Keywords

history of medicine; medical police; death; dying; illness; Enlightenment

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Václav Grubhoffer:
Illness, therapy and dying in late early modern medicine: Changing concepts between baroque period and the first half of the 19th century

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Václav Grubhoffer: Illness, therapy and dying in late early modern medicine: Changing concepts between baroque period and the first half of the 19th century

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Václav Grubhoffer:
Illness, therapy and dying in late early modern medicine: Changing concepts between baroque period and the first half of the 19th century