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Digard, Lola, "Forensic Knowledge, Labour, and the Medical Market in the Peace Procedures of Ghent, 1350–1400", Journal of Medieval History, 51/5 (2025), 696-724.
- Resum
- Focusing on forensic practices, this article investigates the process of professionalisation of medical knowledge in late medieval Ghent. It reconstructs how Ghent's aldermen used biopolitical strategies that aimed to reduce impairment among their population to support their economic and military objectives. The present research argues that this form of governmentality led Ghent's aldermen to include medical practitioners, and especially surgeons, in their legal practice. In turn, fulfilling some crucial political needs of their governments allowed medical professionals to enter negotiations with local aldermen. Ultimately, it shows how surgeons were able to use forensic knowledge to achieve official recognition of their professional status in the city and could even at times claim political representation.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Societat
- URL
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/030441 ...
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