The doctor and his patients: the intergenerational dispute concerning the ideal physician, the Czech Lands 1840s-1890s

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/402090" target="_blank" >https://raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/402090</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30827/dynamis.v41i2.24538" target="_blank" >10.30827/dynamis.v41i2.24538</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The doctor and his patients: the intergenerational dispute concerning the ideal physician, the Czech Lands 1840s-1890s
Original language description
In the second half of the 19th century, the professionalization of the medical field took place in the Czech Lands, then part of Austria-Hungary. The physicians??? aim was to eliminate their rivals, such as charlatans, folk healers, and other alternative healers, but they also strove to regulate competition among colleagues. In this period, which can be described as a period of therapeutic nihilism, a new generation of physicians emerged in the Czech Lands who tried to promote and apply new medical knowledge to everyday practice in the medical market. In practice, however, it was very hard for this innovative group of young medics to defend their scientific approach and their professional honor from the demands of patients, on whose monetary reward they and their families depended. The article argues that there was a dispute between the older and younger generations of physicians over the ideal of the physician and his honor. This hypothesis is based on a discursive analysis of medical manuals for laymen penned mostly by physicians, so-called ??house physicians??, and of articles in professional journals published by local physicians in the Czech language. The conflict is illustrated by examples of bloodletting and drug prescriptions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ20-17978Y" target="_blank" >GJ20-17978Y: The Making of the Doctor and the Patient: The Doctor-Patient Relationship in the History of Bohemian Lands 1769-1992</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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