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Darrera modificació: 2021-09-12
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Stolberg, Michael, "The doctor-patient relationship in the Renaissance", European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 78/1 (2021), 45-73.
- Resum
- Based on the practice journals, personal notes, and letters of learned physicians from the German speaking regions, this paper seeks to reconstruct the lived reality of the doctor-patient relationship in the sixteenth century. Even many affluent and educated patients were quick to consult another practitioner when they were not satisfied, and the physicians resorted to various strategies to win and maintain the patient's trust.
These included preferring or outright inventing a diagnosis the patient could not prove wrong and deliberately exaggerating the severity of the disease so the physicians would gain all the more praise (and money) when the patient got better. On the positive side, the physicians respected their patients' desire for certain medicines and their dislike of others, and went to great lengths to provide them with an explanation of what was happening inside their bodies that made sense to them and matched their personal bodily experience.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Societat
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
- URL
- https://brill.com/view/journals/ehmh/78/1/article-p ...
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