Stein, Claudia. (2006) The meaning of signs : diagnosing the French pox in early modern Augsburg. Bulletin of the history of medicine, Vol.80 (No.4). pp. 617-648. ISSN 0007-5140

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Abstract

This article reconstructs the diagnostic act of the French pox in the French-disease hospital of sixteenth-century Augsburg. It focuses on how the participants in the clinical encounter imagined the configuration of the pox and its localization in the human body. Of central importance for answering this question is the early modern conception of physical signs. It has been argued that it was due to a specific understanding of bodily signs and their relationship to a disease and its causes, that disease definition and classification in the early modern period showed a high degree of flexibility and fluidity. This paper looks at how the sixteenth-century theoretical conception of physical signs not only shaped the diagnosis and treatment of the pox but also reflected the overall organization of institutions.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DD Germany R Medicine > RC Internal medicine
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Syphilis -- Diagnosis -- Germany -- Augsburg -- History -- 16th century
Journal or Publication Title:	Bulletin of the history of medicine
Publisher:	The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISSN:	0007-5140
Date:	2006
Volume:	Vol.80
Number:	No.4
Number of Pages:	32
Page Range:	pp. 617-648
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Version or Related Resource:	First presented: Conference on Patient Body Perceptions, University of Warwick, Coventry, July 2003.
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Type of Event:	Conference
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/32584

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