Medecins voyageurs
Theorie et pratique du voyage medical au debut du XIXe siecle, d'apres deux textes genevois inedits: les "Memoires sur les voyages medicaux (1806-1810)" de Louis Odier et les "Carnets du voyage medical en Europe (1817-1820)" de Louis-Andre Gosse (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15025612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael A Osborne (0000-0002-5474-342X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 227-228 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2004.0038 |
| OpenAlex | W1992313284 |
| Language | EN |
In France, the term médecins voyageurs, like the associated term médecinsnavigants, frequently connoted naval physicians or surgeons who traveled on ship; for the land-locked Swiss, it simply meant physicians who traveled. Two of Geneva's peripatetic medical men, Louis Odier (1748-1817) and Louis-André Gosse (1791-1872), composed the unpublished manuscripts investigated in this volume, namely Odier's proposals of fellowships for medical travel and Gosse's travel journals. Daniela Vaj, whose previous work includes an account of a trip to Italy undertaken by Odier's daughter, quotes at length from these manuscripts with the aim of showing the Genevan medical community's contribution to the evolving definition of the term médecin voyageur
Art · Humanities · Literature · Travel writing · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |