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Darrera modificació: 2021-06-10
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Stolberg, Michael, "Examining the body (c. 1500-1750)", dins: Toulalan, Sarah - Fisher, Kate (eds.), The Routledge History of Sex and the Body: 1500 to the Present, Londres, Routledge, 2013, pp. 91-105.
- Resum
- In modern medical practice, the physical examination of the patient's body plays an important part. Though the range of available diagnostic technologies has widened substantially over the last years, inspection, palpation and auscultation have remained at the centre of the typical medical consultation. This chapter takes a general look at the role of physical examination in early modern medical practice, assesses the impact and relative importance of the three major obstacles to physical examination and identifies developments which promoted an even more widespread reliance on physical examination in the course of the early modern period. Traditional bedside medicine has quite rightly been described as relying heavily on the patient narrative. Physicians frequently based their diagnosis and treatment almost exclusively on the sufferer's account of his or her subjective sensations. Manual exploration also played a crucial role in the diagnosis of dropsy, another common and widely feared disease.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina
- URL
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324 ...
https://books.google.es/books?id=gAK4CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA ...
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