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Geschichte unter der Haut. Ein Eisenacher Arzt und seine Patientinnen um 1730.

Publication Details

Stuttgart: Kiett-Cotta, 1987 CE.

A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th century, including the medical histories of approximately 1800 women of all ages and social stations, often in their own words. Translated into English by Thomas Dunlap as The woman beneath the skin: A doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991

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Entry Number#8048
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/10224
External URLgeschichte-unter-der-haut-ein-eisenacher-arzt-und-seine-patientinnen-um-1730

Geographic Context

Publication place: Stuttgart

Mentioned in annotation: Cambridge, MA; Eisenach