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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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

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

ISBN

978-3-11-077680-5

Počet stran výsledku

24

Strana od-do

415-438

Počet stran knihy

641

Název nakladatele

Walter de Gruyter

Místo vydání

Berlin - Boston

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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