'… illuminating … offers a clear, straightforward and innovatively original approach to the presentation of the subject factually without tendentiousness and integrates social, intellectual and cultural approaches with historical analysis'. Studies in History of Medicine and Science

• Introduction; 1. Physicians in eighteenth-century Germany; 2. Fractures and new alignments; 3. Physicians and writers: medical theory and the emergence of the public sphere; 4. The art of healing; 5. Breaking the shackles of history: the Brunonian revolution in Germany; 6. German medicine during the restoration; Conclusion: disciplines, professions, and the public sphere; Index.

'… illuminating … offers a clear, straightforward and innovatively original approach to the presentation of the subject factually without tendentiousness and integrates social, intellectual and cultural approaches with historical analysis'. Studies in History of Medicine and Science

• Introduction; 1. Physicians in eighteenth-century Germany; 2. Fractures and new alignments; 3. Physicians and writers: medical theory and the emergence of the public sphere; 4. The art of healing; 5. Breaking the shackles of history: the Brunonian revolution in Germany; 6. German medicine during the restoration; Conclusion: disciplines, professions, and the public sphere; Index.

'… illuminating … offers a clear, straightforward and innovatively original approach to the presentation of the subject factually without tendentiousness and integrates social, intellectual and cultural approaches with historical analysis'. Studies in History of Medicine and Science

• Introduction; 1. Physicians in eighteenth-century Germany; 2. Fractures and new alignments; 3. Physicians and writers: medical theory and the emergence of the public sphere; 4. The art of healing; 5. Breaking the shackles of history: the Brunonian revolution in Germany; 6. German medicine during the restoration; Conclusion: disciplines, professions, and the public sphere; Index.