Making Physicians

Evan R. Ragland

ISBN 10: 9004465111 / ISBN 13: 9789004465114

Published by Brill, NL, 2022

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How did medical students become Galenic physicians in the early modern era? Making Physicians guides the reader through the ancient sources, textbooks, lecture halls, gardens, dissecting rooms, and patient bedsides in the early decades of an important medical school. Standard pedagogy combined book learning and hands-on experience. Professors and students embraced Galen's models for integrating reason and experience, and cultivated humanist scholarship and argumentation, which shaped their study of chymistry, medical botany, and clinical practice at patients' bedsides, in private homes and in the city hospital. Following Galen's emphasis on finding and treating the sick parts, professors correlated symptoms and the evidence from post-mortems to produce new pathological knowledge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Physicians
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004465111
• ISBN 13: 9789004465114
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.49W x 3.05H x 23.88D centimeters 15.49 centimeters width by 3.05 centimeters height by 23.88 centimeters depth
• Weight: 910 grams

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Synopsis

How did medical students become Galenic physicians in the early modern era? Making Physicians guides the reader through the ancient sources, textbooks, lecture halls, gardens, dissecting rooms, and patient bedsides in the early decades of an important medical school. Standard pedagogy combined book learning and hands-on experience. Professors and students embraced Galen’s models for integrating reason and experience, and cultivated humanist scholarship and argumentation, which shaped their study of chymistry, medical botany, and clinical practice at patients' bedsides, in private homes and in the city hospital. Following Galen’s emphasis on finding and treating the sick parts, professors correlated symptoms and the evidence from post-mortems to produce new pathological knowledge.

About the Author

Evan R. Ragland, Ph.D. (2012), Indiana University Bloomington, is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has published articles and edited volumes on the histories of early modern European science, medicine, natural philosophy, chymistry, and experimentation.