ISBN:
9789004333437
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 237 Seiten)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Carlino, Andrea [Rezension von: Nance, Brian, Turquet de Mayerne as Baroque Physician: The Art of Medical Portraiture] 2003
Series Statement:
Clio medica 65
Series Statement:
Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
Series Statement:
Clio medica
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nance, Brian Turquet de Mayerne as baroque physician
Keywords:
Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de
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Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de
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Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de 〈Sir, 1573-1655〉
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Clinical Medicine history
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London
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History, 17th Century London
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Physician-Patient Relations London
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Physicians London
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Biography
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Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de 1573-1655
Abstract:
A Brief Life -- Constructing the Casebooks -- The Past: Evaluating the Patient -- The Past: Determining the Patient’s Temperament -- The Present: What is a Disease? -- The Present: Mayerne’s Diagnoses in Social Context -- The Future: Prognosis -- The Future: Therapeutics and Chemical Cures -- The Death of Prince Henry -- Mayerne as Baroque Physician -- Appendix One -- Appendix Two -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
For fifty years, Theodore Turquet de Mayerne served as a royal physician in France and then in England. Historians have long recognised him as a brilliant practitioner and chemical Galenist, but this book is the first major study of his remarkable Latin casebooks, the ‘Ephemerides Morborum’ (Diaries of Disease). Interpreting the casebooks in the light of Mayerne's own theoretical writings and of contemporaries such as Jean Fernel, the book is a cultural history of medical perception. It shows how Mayerne crafted a medical portrait for his patients, moving from evaluation, through diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics, and focuses on those moments when theory and practice merged to form an integrated medical outlook that served as the basis for action. Convinced that his innovations had the sanction of Galen and Hippocrates, Mayerne added chemical principles to humoral medicine, a greater empiricism to a more rational approach to medicine, and an interventionist therapeutics to a more cautious view of therapy, thus forging a complex synthesis that bore certain structural similarities to baroque culture and art
DOI:
10.1163/9789004333437
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