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Medical Practice, 1600-1900
Drawing in particular on physicians’ casebooks, Medical Practices, 1600-1900 studies the changing nature of ordinary medical practice in early modern Europe. Combining case studies on individual German, Austrian and Swiss practitioners with a comparative analysis across the centuries, it offers the first comprehensive and systematic overview of the major aspects of premodern practitioners daily work and business – from diagnostic and therapeutic approaches and the kinds of patients treated to financial issues, record keeping and their place in contemporary society.
The Great War and the Anthropocene
This volume places the Eastern, especially the Austro-Russian, fronts of the Great War centre stage, examining the little-known environmental and spatial dimensions in the history of the war. The focus is particularly on the Austrian crown land of Galicia, which was transformed from a neglected periphery into a battleground of three imperial armies, and where for the first time, nature was a key protagonist. The book balances contributions by emerging and established scholars, and benefits from a multi-language approach, expertise in the field, and extensive archival research in national archives. Contributors are Hanna Bazhenova, Gustavo Corni, Iaroslav Golubinov, Kerstin Susanne Jobst, Tomasz Kargol, Alexandra Likhacheva, Oksana Nagornaia, David Novotny, Christoph Nübel, Gwendal Piégais, Andrea Rendl, Kamil Ruszała, Nicolas Saunders, Kerstin von Lingen, Yulia Zherdeva, and Liubov Zhvanko.
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance
Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he describes the prevailing notions of illness in the era, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, the doctor–patient relationship, and home and lay medicine.
Embodied Histories
Explores the emergence of a new womanhood in turn-of-the-century Vienna. In Embodied Histories, historian Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of defiance that formed the basis for new, unconventional forms of womanhood in early twentieth-century Vienna. The figures Motyl brings back to life defied gender conformity, dressed in new ways, behaved brashly, and expressed themselves freely, overturning assumptions about what it meant to exist as a woman. Motyl delves into how these women inhabited and reshaped the urban landscape of Vienna, an increasingly modern, cosmopolitan city. Specifically, she focuses on the ways that easily overlooked quotidian practices such as loitering outside cafés and wandering through city streets helped create novel conceptions of gender. Exploring the emergence of a new womanhood, Embodied Histories presents a new account of how gender, the body, and the city merge with and transform each other, showing how our modes of being are radically intertwined with the spaces we inhabit.
Tracts of Action
This volume offers the user a guide to the neglected field of how-to books. How do I make soap? How do I dye textiles? What ingredients do I need for an effective remedy? Practical information of this kind, on distillation, medicine, dyeing, cosmetics, glassmaking, ceramics, metallurgy and many other subjects flooded the book market in the first centuries of printing. As varied as these subjects may be, they provoke a number of research questions: How does one learn practical skills from a book? Why were these books so popular, who used them and how, and can they even be considered a clearly defined genre? The aim of this volume is to establish which patterns characterise the genre of how-to...
Osiris, Volume 39
Presents a powerful new vision of the history of science through the lens of disability studies. Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science, as in the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely imagined to be the source of expertise, especially the kind of expertise that produces (rational, neutral, universal) scientific knowledge. This volume of Osiris places disability history and the history of science in conversation to foreground disability epistemologies, disabled scientists, a...
Profit
Profit — getting more out of something than you put into it — is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting surplus value from the earth, often deploying brutally effective methods to discipline people to do the work needed. Historian Mark Stoll explains how capitalism supercharged this process and traces its many environmental consequences. The financial innovations of medieval Italy created trade networks that, with the European discovery of the Americas, made possible vast profits and sweeping cultural changes, to the detrimen...
Im Schatten der Macht
Dieser Band nimmt niederrangiges Dienstpersonal an frühneuzeitlichen Fürstenhöfen aus einer körpergeschichtlichen Perspektive in den Blick. Die neun Beiträge richten ihr Augenmerk auf die Rolle unterschiedlicher subalterner Akteursgruppen im direkten räumlichen Umfeld von Herrschern und ihren Familien. Sie fragen nach ihrer sozialen Sicht- und Unsichtbarkeit und den damit verbundenen Chancen und Grenzen des sozialen Aufstiegs. Sie zeigen, dass viele subalterne Hofangestellte wie Kammerdiener, Leibärzte oder Ammen trotz oder gerade wegen ihrer ständischen Distanz im Alltag in ständigem Körperkontakt mit (künftigen) Fürstinnen und Fürsten standen. Andere niederrangige Bedienstete wie Musiker und Leibgardisten bespielten die Sinne der Herrschenden oder schirmten ihren Körper von der sozialen Umwelt ab. Indem der Band ein Augenmerk auf körperliche oder körperbezogene Dienste, Eigenschaften und Fähigkeiten richtet, ermöglicht er einen neuen Blick auf die Funktionsweisen dynastischer Herrschaft und höfischer Sozialität.
Go Public!
Public History ist ein Weg, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse nicht nur in die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen, sondern ihnen auch Akzeptanz zu verschaffen. Dies kann gelingen, indem die Öffentlichkeit, d. h. auch die so genannten „Laien“, in den wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisprozess einbezogen werden. Somit kann Public History ein relevanter Teil der Lebenswelten der Menschen sein. Sie bedeutet nicht „trockene“ wissenschaftliche Arbeit, sondern fördert die Freude und die Lust an der Beschäftigung mit der Vergangenheit und Geschichte. In diesem Sinne soll der vorliegende Band dazu beitragen, das Verständnis der Wissenschaft für den oftmals als „third mission“ bezeichneten Weg in die Öffentlichkeit zu fördern. Zugleich soll er auch Strategien entwickeln, um das Interesse der Öffentlichkeit an Geschichte zu wecken. „Go public!“ sollte vermehrt die Devise der verschiedenen historischen (Teil-)Disziplinen sein.
