Reputation and Authority in the Physician's Communication with Patients as Reflected in the Czech Language Sources of the Early Modern Period

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reputation and Authority in the Physician's Communication with Patients as Reflected in the Czech Language Sources of the Early Modern Period

Original language description

Communication with patients and their families and other close ones ranks among the means used by doctors to build their reputation and exert their professional authority. This study concentrates on selected aspects of physicians? communication found in Czech-language sources dating from the early modern period and also pays attention to the earlier tradition of medical literature, especially late-medieval Latin writings on physicians? behavior toward patients. These works reflect a new phenomenon entering the market of providers of medical services ?university-educated doctors. Physicians with a university degree based their professional authority on their knowledge of theoretical medicine and its close connection with natural philosophy, emphasizing its importance for proper treatment. By bolstering the impression of their professional exclusivity, they emphasized their right to receive adequate payment for their service. Given the tenuous possibilities of contemporary medicine, however, doctors had to communicate very cautiously. Although they needed to boost the patients? belief in recovery for the sake of the successful treatment, they knew that an inadequately communicated prognosis could jeopardize their reputation. Therefore, concerning the addressees, they pragmatically modified their communication strategies so that, on the one hand, they achieved the patients? recovery by means of their authority, and, on the other hand, they protected their reputation through their medical success.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

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

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Communication, Translation, nad Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives

ISBN

978-3-11-077680-5

Number of pages of the result

24

Pages from-to

415-438

Number of pages of the book

641

Publisher name

Walter de Gruyter

Place of publication

Berlin - Boston

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