Civic Medicine

Introduction: Civic Medicine 1. Public Practice: The European Longue Durée of Knowing for Health and Polity Part I: Scholar in Town, Scholar in Office 2. The Many Uses of Writing: A Humanist Physician in Sixteenth-Century Prague 3. Promoting a Good Physician: Letters of Application to German Civic Authorities, 1500–1700 4. De officiis: Doctors’ Oaths and Appointments in Early Modern Nuremberg Part II: Evaluating, Reporting 5. Reporting for Action: Forms of Writing between Medicine and Polity in Milan, 1580-1650 6. Negotiating on Paper: Councilors, Medical Officers, and Patients in an Early Modern City Part III: Documenting, Locating 7. Accountability, Autobiography, and Belonging: The Working Journal of a Sixteenth-Century Diplomatic Physician between Venice and Damascus 8. A Sense of Place: Town Physicians and the Resources of Locality in Early Modern Medicine 9. Physical City: A Royal Physician’s Warsaw Part IV: Translating, Translocating 10. Transformative Itineraries and Communities of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: The Case of Lazare Rivière’s The Practice of Physick 11. Trading Information: The City of Nuremberg and the Birth of a Latin Medical Weekly