Article ID: CBB001552355

Casebooks in Early Modern England: Medicine, Astrology, and Written Records (2014)

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Casebooks are the richest sources that we have for encounters between early modern medical practitioners and their patients. This article compares astrological and medical records across two centuries, focused on England, and charts developments in the ways in which practitioners kept records and reflected on their practices. Astrologers had a long history of working from particular moments, stellar configurations, and events to general rules. These practices required systematic notation. Physicians increasingly modeled themselves on Hippocrates, recording details of cases as the basis for reasoned expositions of the histories of disease. Medical records, as other scholars have demonstrated, shaped the production of medical knowledge. Instead, this article focuses on the nature of casebooks as artifacts of the medical encounter. It establishes that casebooks were serial records of practice, akin to diaries, testimonials, and registers; identifies extant English casebooks and the practices that led to their production and preservation; and concludes that the processes of writing, ordering, and preserving medical records are as important for understanding the medical encounter as the records themselves.

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Authors & Contributors
Archer, Jayne
Ben-Dov, Jonathan
Brown, David
Ciancio, Luca
Curth, Louise
Davis, John
Journals
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Culture and Cosmos
Historical Journal
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Continuum
Diaphanes
Erasmus Publishing
Harrassowitz
Concepts
Astrology
Astronomy
Medicine
Laboratory notebooks
Science and religion
Alchemy
People
Beale, John
Boyle, Robert
Cassirer, Ernst
Dee, John
Forman, Simon
Galeano, Moses ben Judah
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
19th century
Medieval
Renaissance
Places
England
India
Iran
Mesopotamia
Rome (Italy)
China
Institutions
British Library
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