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Medizinische Loci communes (2013)

NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Volume: 21, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 37-60

DOI: 10.1007/s00048-012-0084-7

Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Article in a special issue: “ Paper Technology in der Frühen Neuzeit”
Language: German

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Paper and paper industry Medicine Physicians; doctors Order (philosophy); organization Manuscripts Notebooks 16th century Early modern 17th century

Commonplacing was one of the most widely practiced types of paper technology in the early modern period. Yet its place and function in medicine remain largely unexplored. Based on about two dozen manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in which physicians used commonplacing to record excerpts from their reading as well as personal observations and ideas, this paper offers a first survey of the roles, forms and epistemic effects of medical commonplacing in the early modern period. Three principal types of commonplacing are identified, namely the systematic, the alphabetical and the sequential. The advantages and disadvantages of each type with regard to economy of space and time, flexibility, and order are pointed out. Among the potential epistemic effects of collecting and ordering information under heads are, in particular, a heightened awareness of contradictions between authors or observations on a specific topic, an appreciation for snippets of information as fact-like elements of knowledge inviting rearrangement, and a certain shift towards the notion of diseases as distinct entities endowed with specific, empirically observable properties.

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Article Hess, Volker; Mendelsohn, J. Andrew (2013) Paper Technology und Wissensgeschichte. NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin (pp. 1-10). unapi

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