Michael Stolberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1536450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Stolberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Stolberg |
| SIGNATURE | STOLBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Würzburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Handwerkschirurgie im frühen 17. Jahrhundert. Das Praxisjournal eines Münsteraner Barbiers
Der Beitrag stellt das Praxisjournal eines Münsteraner Barbiers vor, in dem dieser rund 950 Fälle verzeichnete, die zwischen 1602 und 1614 in seine Behandlung kamen. Gestützt auf diese Quelle, untersucht er die Klientel, die Behandlungsanlässe und die Honorarforderungen eines handwerklich gebildeten Wundarztes im frühen 17. Jahrhundert
Alessandra Quaranta, Medici-physici trentini nella seconda metà del Cinquecento. Sapere medico, identità professionale e scambi cultural-scientifici con le corti asburgiche. (Studi e Ricerche, Vol. 21…
Article Alessandra Quaranta, Medici-physici trentini nella seconda metà del Cinquecento. Sapere medico, identità professionale e scambi cultural-scientifici con le corti asburgiche. (Studi e Ricerche, Vol. 21.) Trento, Università degli Studi di Trento. Dipartimento di Lettere i Filosofia 2019 was published on April 1, 2021 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 312, issue 2)
Hannah Newton, Misery to Mirth
In Misery to Mirth, Hannah Newton addresses a topic that has attracted remarkably little attention among historians of health and medicine: recovery from serious physical illness. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from vernacular medical writings and physicians’ casebooks to patients’ diaries and other ego-documents, she looks at how men and women (mostly from the upper-classes), physicians and families perceived, dealt with and experienced con…
Medizin im Konflikt
Medizin im Konflikt: Fakultäten, Märkte und Experten in deutschen Universitätsstädten des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Jana Madlen Schütte. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 53. Leiden: Brill, 2017. x + 482 pp. €156. - Volume 72 Issue 1
Teaching Anatomy in Post-Vesalian Padua
Drawing on the personal notebooks of three medical students who studied in Padua in the late 1540s and early 1550s, this essay examines the contents and methods of anatomical teaching of Andreas Vesalius’s successors and in particular that of Antonio Fracanzani and Gabriele Falloppia. These student notes, which have not yet been explored — or indeed known to exist — show, among other things, the outstanding importance of anatomical demonstrations…
Learning anatomy in late sixteenth-century Padua
Based on the newly discovered, extensive manuscript notes of a virtually unknown German medical student by the name of Johann Konrad Zinn, who studied in Padua from 1593 to 1595, this paper offers a detailed account of what medical students could expect to learn about anatomy in late sixteenth-century Padua. It highlights the large number and wide range of anatomical demonstrations, most of which were private anatomies for a small circle of stude…
A Sixteenth-century Physician and His Patients
This paper presents the results of a detailed analysis of the most extensive practice journal by far that is known to have survived from any medical doctor in sixteenth-century Europe. Over a period of almost 25 years, Hiob Finzel, town physician first in Weimar and later, for most of his professional life, in Zwickau recorded more than 10,000 consultations. Looking at the age and gender of his patients in Zwickau, we find a predominance of male …
Praktiken der Frühen Neuzeit
Metaphors and Images of Cancer in Early Modern Europe
Drawing on learned medical writing about cancer and on nonmedical texts that used cancer as a metaphor for hateful cultural, social, religious, or political phenomena that warranted drastic measures, this article traces the metaphors and images that framed the perception and experience of cancer in the early modern period. It finds that cancer was closely associated with notions of impurity and a visible destruction of the body’s surface and was …
John Locke’s “New Method of Making Common-Place-Books”
In 1676, the English physician and philosopher John Locke published a new method of commonplacing. He had developed this method and, in particular, a new approach to organizing and indexing the entries, in the course of 25 years of personal note-taking and it proved quite influential. This paper presents the three major approaches to commonplacing as practiced by physicians and other scholars before Locke--the systematic or textbook approach, the…
Learning from the Common Folks. Academic Physicians and Medical Lay Culture in the Sixteenth Century
Bedside Teaching and the Acquisition of Practical Skills in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Padua
Very little is known to this point about the practical skills which sixteenth-century physicians needed and applied at the bedside and even less about how these skills were taught to students. Drawing on student notebooks and on printed collections of consilia by Padua professors, this paper outlines the different settings in which case-centered and, more specifically, bedside teaching was imparted in mid-sixteenth-century Padua. It describes the…
Empiricism in Sixteenth-Century Medical Practice
Based on an analysis of some 4.000 pages of manuscript notes on ordinary medical practice which the little-known Bohemian physician Georg Handsch (1529–1578?) wrote from the late 1540s, this article traces the central place which empiricist attitudes and approaches held in mid-sixteenth-century learned medical practice. While explicit epistemological statements are rare, the very effort which Handsch put into recording thousands of observations h…
Abhorreas pinguedinem’
The Decline of Uroscopy in Early Modern Learned Medicine (1500-1650)
From the early sixteenth century, uroscopy lost much of the great appeal it had possessed among medieval physicians. Once valued as an outstanding diagnostic tool which ensured authority and fame, it became an object of massive criticism if not derision. As this paper shows, growing awareness of theoretical inconsistencies, the new medical empiricism and humanistic opposition against Arabic and medieval predecessors can explain this drastic reval…
Active Euthanasia in Pre-Modern Society, 1500 1800
Historians of medical ethics have found that active euthanasia, in the sense of intentionally hastening the death of terminally-ill patients, was considered unacceptable in the Christian West before the 1870s. This paper presents a range of early modern texts on the issue which reflect a learned awareness of practices designed to shorten the lives of dying patients which were widely accepted among the lay public. Depriving the dying abruptly of t…
Frühneuzeitliche Heilkunst und ärztliche Autorität
The Crime of Onan and the Laws of Nature. Religious and medical discourses on masturbation in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
This article takes a closer look at the arguments and intellectual context of theological and medical discourse on masturbation in the early stages of the anti‐masturbation campaign, from about 1680 to 1730. It identifies a first stage, during which moralist and religious writing dominated the campaign. The authors used medical arguments on the fatal health hazards of masturbation in support of their message. But the crucial shift in religious di…
A Woman Down to Her Bones
Based on a wide range of Latin and vernacular sources, this essay reexamines Thomas Laqueur's and Londa Schiebinger's influential claim that the idea of incommensurable anatomical difference between the sexes was "invented" in the eighteenth century, reflecting, in particular, a need to resort to nature in order to justify female subordination against new ideals of equality and universal rights. It provides ample evidence that already around 1600…
An Unmanly Vice
The campaign against masturbation offers one of the outstanding success stories in the history of medical popularization. This paper seeks to identify the reasons for this success, focusing on the campaign's early stages, from the late seventeenth century onwards. It first identifies a series of often quite explicit political, ideological, and economic motives such as religious notions of 'uncleaniness', bourgeois concerns about self-control, mar…
A Woman's Hell? Medical Perceptions of Menopause in Preindustrial Europe
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
National Statistics on the Causes of Death in Nineteenth-Century Bavaria
Journal Article National Statistics on the Causes of Death in Nineteenth-Century Bavaria Get access MICHAEL STOLBERG MICHAEL STOLBERG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 210–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/54.2.210 Published: 01 April 1999
A Woman Down to Her Bones
Based on a wide range of Latin and vernacular sources, this essay reexamines Thomas Laqueur's and Londa Schiebinger's influential claim that the idea of incommensurable anatomical difference between the sexes was "invented" in the eighteenth century, reflecting, in particular, a need to resort to nature in order to justify female subordination against new ideals of equality and universal rights. It provides ample evidence that already around 1600…
An Unmanly Vice
The campaign against masturbation offers one of the outstanding success stories in the history of medical popularization. This paper seeks to identify the reasons for this success, focusing on the campaign's early stages, from the late seventeenth century onwards. It first identifies a series of often quite explicit political, ideological, and economic motives such as religious notions of 'uncleaniness', bourgeois concerns about self-control, mar…
Bedside Teaching and the Acquisition of Practical Skills in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Padua
Very little is known to this point about the practical skills which sixteenth-century physicians needed and applied at the bedside and even less about how these skills were taught to students. Drawing on student notebooks and on printed collections of consilia by Padua professors, this paper outlines the different settings in which case-centered and, more specifically, bedside teaching was imparted in mid-sixteenth-century Padua. It describes the…
Empiricism in Sixteenth-Century Medical Practice
Based on an analysis of some 4.000 pages of manuscript notes on ordinary medical practice which the little-known Bohemian physician Georg Handsch (1529–1578?) wrote from the late 1540s, this article traces the central place which empiricist attitudes and approaches held in mid-sixteenth-century learned medical practice. While explicit epistemological statements are rare, the very effort which Handsch put into recording thousands of observations h…
Abhorreas pinguedinem’
The Crime of Onan and the Laws of Nature. Religious and medical discourses on masturbation in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
This article takes a closer look at the arguments and intellectual context of theological and medical discourse on masturbation in the early stages of the anti‐masturbation campaign, from about 1680 to 1730. It identifies a first stage, during which moralist and religious writing dominated the campaign. The authors used medical arguments on the fatal health hazards of masturbation in support of their message. But the crucial shift in religious di…
Teaching Anatomy in Post-Vesalian Padua
Drawing on the personal notebooks of three medical students who studied in Padua in the late 1540s and early 1550s, this essay examines the contents and methods of anatomical teaching of Andreas Vesalius’s successors and in particular that of Antonio Fracanzani and Gabriele Falloppia. These student notes, which have not yet been explored — or indeed known to exist — show, among other things, the outstanding importance of anatomical demonstrations…
Learning anatomy in late sixteenth-century Padua
Based on the newly discovered, extensive manuscript notes of a virtually unknown German medical student by the name of Johann Konrad Zinn, who studied in Padua from 1593 to 1595, this paper offers a detailed account of what medical students could expect to learn about anatomy in late sixteenth-century Padua. It highlights the large number and wide range of anatomical demonstrations, most of which were private anatomies for a small circle of stude…
A Sixteenth-century Physician and His Patients
This paper presents the results of a detailed analysis of the most extensive practice journal by far that is known to have survived from any medical doctor in sixteenth-century Europe. Over a period of almost 25 years, Hiob Finzel, town physician first in Weimar and later, for most of his professional life, in Zwickau recorded more than 10,000 consultations. Looking at the age and gender of his patients in Zwickau, we find a predominance of male …
John Locke’s “New Method of Making Common-Place-Books”
In 1676, the English physician and philosopher John Locke published a new method of commonplacing. He had developed this method and, in particular, a new approach to organizing and indexing the entries, in the course of 25 years of personal note-taking and it proved quite influential. This paper presents the three major approaches to commonplacing as practiced by physicians and other scholars before Locke--the systematic or textbook approach, the…
Learning from the Common Folks. Academic Physicians and Medical Lay Culture in the Sixteenth Century
A Woman's Hell? Medical Perceptions of Menopause in Preindustrial Europe
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
National Statistics on the Causes of Death in Nineteenth-Century Bavaria
Journal Article National Statistics on the Causes of Death in Nineteenth-Century Bavaria Get access MICHAEL STOLBERG MICHAEL STOLBERG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 54, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 210–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/54.2.210 Published: 01 April 1999
An Unmanly Vice
The campaign against masturbation offers one of the outstanding success stories in the history of medical popularization. This paper seeks to identify the reasons for this success, focusing on the campaign's early stages, from the late seventeenth century onwards. It first identifies a series of often quite explicit political, ideological, and economic motives such as religious notions of 'uncleaniness', bourgeois concerns about self-control, mar…
The Crime of Onan and the Laws of Nature. Religious and medical discourses on masturbation in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
This article takes a closer look at the arguments and intellectual context of theological and medical discourse on masturbation in the early stages of the anti‐masturbation campaign, from about 1680 to 1730. It identifies a first stage, during which moralist and religious writing dominated the campaign. The authors used medical arguments on the fatal health hazards of masturbation in support of their message. But the crucial shift in religious di…
A Woman Down to Her Bones
Based on a wide range of Latin and vernacular sources, this essay reexamines Thomas Laqueur's and Londa Schiebinger's influential claim that the idea of incommensurable anatomical difference between the sexes was "invented" in the eighteenth century, reflecting, in particular, a need to resort to nature in order to justify female subordination against new ideals of equality and universal rights. It provides ample evidence that already around 1600…
Frühneuzeitliche Heilkunst und ärztliche Autorität
The Decline of Uroscopy in Early Modern Learned Medicine (1500-1650)
From the early sixteenth century, uroscopy lost much of the great appeal it had possessed among medieval physicians. Once valued as an outstanding diagnostic tool which ensured authority and fame, it became an object of massive criticism if not derision. As this paper shows, growing awareness of theoretical inconsistencies, the new medical empiricism and humanistic opposition against Arabic and medieval predecessors can explain this drastic reval…
Active Euthanasia in Pre-Modern Society, 1500 1800
Historians of medical ethics have found that active euthanasia, in the sense of intentionally hastening the death of terminally-ill patients, was considered unacceptable in the Christian West before the 1870s. This paper presents a range of early modern texts on the issue which reflect a learned awareness of practices designed to shorten the lives of dying patients which were widely accepted among the lay public. Depriving the dying abruptly of t…
Abhorreas pinguedinem’
Empiricism in Sixteenth-Century Medical Practice
Based on an analysis of some 4.000 pages of manuscript notes on ordinary medical practice which the little-known Bohemian physician Georg Handsch (1529–1578?) wrote from the late 1540s, this article traces the central place which empiricist attitudes and approaches held in mid-sixteenth-century learned medical practice. While explicit epistemological statements are rare, the very effort which Handsch put into recording thousands of observations h…
Metaphors and Images of Cancer in Early Modern Europe
Drawing on learned medical writing about cancer and on nonmedical texts that used cancer as a metaphor for hateful cultural, social, religious, or political phenomena that warranted drastic measures, this article traces the metaphors and images that framed the perception and experience of cancer in the early modern period. It finds that cancer was closely associated with notions of impurity and a visible destruction of the body’s surface and was …
John Locke’s “New Method of Making Common-Place-Books”
In 1676, the English physician and philosopher John Locke published a new method of commonplacing. He had developed this method and, in particular, a new approach to organizing and indexing the entries, in the course of 25 years of personal note-taking and it proved quite influential. This paper presents the three major approaches to commonplacing as practiced by physicians and other scholars before Locke--the systematic or textbook approach, the…
Learning from the Common Folks. Academic Physicians and Medical Lay Culture in the Sixteenth Century
Bedside Teaching and the Acquisition of Practical Skills in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Padua
Very little is known to this point about the practical skills which sixteenth-century physicians needed and applied at the bedside and even less about how these skills were taught to students. Drawing on student notebooks and on printed collections of consilia by Padua professors, this paper outlines the different settings in which case-centered and, more specifically, bedside teaching was imparted in mid-sixteenth-century Padua. It describes the…
Praktiken der Frühen Neuzeit
A Sixteenth-century Physician and His Patients
This paper presents the results of a detailed analysis of the most extensive practice journal by far that is known to have survived from any medical doctor in sixteenth-century Europe. Over a period of almost 25 years, Hiob Finzel, town physician first in Weimar and later, for most of his professional life, in Zwickau recorded more than 10,000 consultations. Looking at the age and gender of his patients in Zwickau, we find a predominance of male …
Teaching Anatomy in Post-Vesalian Padua
Drawing on the personal notebooks of three medical students who studied in Padua in the late 1540s and early 1550s, this essay examines the contents and methods of anatomical teaching of Andreas Vesalius’s successors and in particular that of Antonio Fracanzani and Gabriele Falloppia. These student notes, which have not yet been explored — or indeed known to exist — show, among other things, the outstanding importance of anatomical demonstrations…
Learning anatomy in late sixteenth-century Padua
Based on the newly discovered, extensive manuscript notes of a virtually unknown German medical student by the name of Johann Konrad Zinn, who studied in Padua from 1593 to 1595, this paper offers a detailed account of what medical students could expect to learn about anatomy in late sixteenth-century Padua. It highlights the large number and wide range of anatomical demonstrations, most of which were private anatomies for a small circle of stude…
Medizin im Konflikt
Medizin im Konflikt: Fakultäten, Märkte und Experten in deutschen Universitätsstädten des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Jana Madlen Schütte. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 53. Leiden: Brill, 2017. x + 482 pp. €156. - Volume 72 Issue 1
Hannah Newton, Misery to Mirth
In Misery to Mirth, Hannah Newton addresses a topic that has attracted remarkably little attention among historians of health and medicine: recovery from serious physical illness. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from vernacular medical writings and physicians’ casebooks to patients’ diaries and other ego-documents, she looks at how men and women (mostly from the upper-classes), physicians and families perceived, dealt with and experienced con…
Alessandra Quaranta, Medici-physici trentini nella seconda metà del Cinquecento. Sapere medico, identità professionale e scambi cultural-scientifici con le corti asburgiche. (Studi e Ricerche, Vol. 21…
Article Alessandra Quaranta, Medici-physici trentini nella seconda metà del Cinquecento. Sapere medico, identità professionale e scambi cultural-scientifici con le corti asburgiche. (Studi e Ricerche, Vol. 21.) Trento, Università degli Studi di Trento. Dipartimento di Lettere i Filosofia 2019 was published on April 1, 2021 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 312, issue 2)
Handwerkschirurgie im frühen 17. Jahrhundert. Das Praxisjournal eines Münsteraner Barbiers
Der Beitrag stellt das Praxisjournal eines Münsteraner Barbiers vor, in dem dieser rund 950 Fälle verzeichnete, die zwischen 1602 und 1614 in seine Behandlung kamen. Gestützt auf diese Quelle, untersucht er die Klientel, die Behandlungsanlässe und die Honorarforderungen eines handwerklich gebildeten Wundarztes im frühen 17. Jahrhundert
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