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Just What Do Physicians Do? Unexpected Continuities from Sixteenth-Century Padua (2014)

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The historical roots of bedside medical practice are often traced to the halls of the peri-revolutionary Parisian hospitals. But Michael Stolberg would have us look instead almost three hundred years earlier and one thousand kilometers to the southeast, to the medical schools of sixteenth-century Padua. There, in the most renowned medical institution of the time, students routinely followed teachers to the bedsides of their sick patients. In this paper, Stolberg adeptly uses student notes to examine clinical teaching in the Hospital of San Francesco, helping us understand how these physicians related scholarly analysis offered in the sterile confines of the classroom to the practices performed in the messy world of bedside medicine.

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Article Stolberg, Michael (2014) Bedside Teaching and the Acquisition of Practical Skills in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Padua. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 633-664). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Stolberg, Michael
Barry, Jonathan
Patergnani, Elisa
Marian Surdacki
Martin Robert
Cardoso, Adelino
Concepts
Medical education and teaching
Physicians; doctors
Medicine
Medicine and society
Anatomy
Surgery
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
16th century
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Padua (Italy)
Italy
England
London (England)
Philadelphia, PA
Edinburgh
Institutions
University of Padua
University of Paris V
University of Marburg
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Universität Wittenberg
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