Medical misinformation in early modern Germany / Christopher Hutchinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchinson, Christopher (Professor of German), Author.

Series:

Early modern exchange

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Germany--History--16th century.

Medicine.

Medicine--Germany--History--17th century.

Medicine--Germany--History--18th century.

Medical misconceptions--Germany--History.

Medical misconceptions.

Communication in medicine--Germany--History.

Communication in medicine.

Communicable diseases--Germany--History.

Communicable diseases.

Communication.

History, Early Modern 1451-1600.

Germany.

Medical Subjects:

Communication.

History, Early Modern 1451-1600.

Germany.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

illustration

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany examines how doctors, writers, and printers in sixteenth-century Germany responded to the rapid expansion of print and its implications for medical knowledge. The spread of printed texts generated widespread suspicion about print's reliability as a conduit of information and led writers to reflect on questions of audience, vernacularity, and medical authority in their responses to disease. The book investigates literary texts alongside popular vernacular medical pamphlets on the major epidemic diseases of the period - plague, syphilis, and the English sweating sickness - to reveal a widespread concern with the impact of printed texts on public health. During the 1529 outbreak of the English sweating sickness, this concern culminated in writers' use of a "rhetoric of virality," explicitly comparing the circulation of texts to the spread of disease, as they confronted the parallel contagions of disease and information."-- back cover

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on sources

Introduction : Pathologies of information in early modern Germany

Plague for a popular audience : suspicions of print in late fifteenth-century Germany

The French disease and the Guaiac cure : medical authority in Hutten and Paracelsus

The English sweating sickness and the rhetoric of vitality

The apparatus of virality : the sweating cure and the Reformation

Printing quackery

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Hutchinson, Christopher (Professor of German) Medical misinformation in early modern Germany

ISBN:

9781644534281

1644534282

9781644534298

1644534290

OCLC:

1541907624

Publisher Number:

90104832405