Biomedical subjects

R Jütte

Publications and source records attributed to R Jütte.

15 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1999

The historiography of nonconventional medicine in Germany: a concise overview.

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Complementary Therapies↗

PubMed1997

[Primitive medicine and high tech medicine].

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Biopsy↗

PubMed1996

[Not Available].

Pain, and toothache in particular, belongs to the most basic human experiences. This paper describes how the experience of pain is shaped and modified by individual human minds and by specific medical cultures. It explores what social historians of medicine call the historical, social, cultural, and psychological construction of pain. The story of how people reconstruct the experience of pain in past and present demands that we look beyond the medical gaze. The voices most often neglected in medical history belong of course to patients. However, their testimony is difficult to recover, except for more recent times. We have to look therefore for their hidden voices in diaries, memoirs, essays, poems, novels and other literary genres. These scattered records and fragmentary episodes of bouts of illness suggest that the history of toothache cannot be reduced to a parable about biomedical progress, but stands at the crossroad of bodies, minds, and cultures.

History, Early Modern 1451-1600↗

PubMed1995

[Not Available].

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History, 19th Century↗

PubMed1993

[Valentin Rösswurm: on the social history of Paracelsism in the 16th century].

The reactions awakened in his own day by the lithotomist Valentin Rösswurm were not many but varied. Up to now only the controversy about his Paracelsus connection has been mentioned in some studies on Paracelsian medicine in 16th-century England. Nothing has been known so far about the social background of the foreign doctor who came to England from the Continent. New documents found in various European archives enable us to reconstruct the career of another disciple of Paracelsus who earned his living by lithotomy and herniotomy, being one of the many itinerant surgeons who flocked European cities in the early modern period. The new evidence also does justice to a man accused of being a quack by his English critics but who was in fact an experienced and literate surgeon no better and no worse than the local healers with whom he competed for wealthy clients.

England↗

PubMed1992