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Darrera modificació: 2021-05-28
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Stolberg, Michael, "A Sixteenth-century physician and his patients: the practice journal of Hiob Finzel, 1565–1589", Social History of Medicine, 32/2 (2019), 221-240.
- Resum
- This paper presents the results of a detailed analysis of the most extensive practice journal by far that is known to have survived from any medical doctor in sixteenth-century Europe. Over a period of almost 25 years, Hiob Finzel, town physician first in Weimar and later, for most of his professional life, in Zwickau recorded more than 10,000 consultations. Looking at the age and gender of his patients in Zwickau, we find a predominance of male patients and a remarkable number of infants and children. While only a minority of (mostly upper-class) patients consulted Finzel regularly, an analysis of the patient's professions (viz. that of the respective bread-winner) and the very moderate fees they paid shows that Finzel's services were accessible to and called for not just by a small urban elite but by large parts of the population, including many artisans and country folk.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Biografia
- URL
- https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-abstract/32/2/ ...
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