Martin Dinges, Prof. Dr. phil., deputy director of the Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart, associate professor for modern history at the Universität Mannheim. Academic training: law, history and political science in Cologne, Mainz, Bonn, Berlin and Bordeaux, Ph.D in history (Freie Universität Berlin, 1986), habilitation in modern history (Mannheim, 1991).Kay Peter Jankrift, Prof. Dr. phil., associate professor for medieval history at the Universität Münster. Academic training: history, semitic languages and islamic science at the universities of Münster and Tel Aviv, PhD in medieval history (Münster, 1995), habilitation in medieval history (Münster, 2002). Sabine Schlegelmilch, Dr. phil., Assistant professor at Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Würzburg. Academic training: classics and German literature in Würzburg and London. Interdisciplinary PhD in classics, archeology, egyptology (Würzburg, 2008). Michael Stolberg, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil., head of the Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Würzburg. Academic training: MD-thesis in history of medicine (Munich, 1986), habilitation in medical history and medical sociology (Munich 1992), PhD in history (Munich, 1994).

In dem vorzustellenden Sammelband werden acht Projekte zu städtischen und ländlichen Arztpraxen (mit Forschenden aus Berlin, Bern, Ingolstadt, Innsbruck/Bozen, Stuttgart,Würzburg und Zürich) im Zeitraum vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zum Fin de Siècle von 20 Autorinnen und Autoren vorgestellt. Dazu haben die Herausgeber eine sehr gelungene Zweiteilung gewählt.- Christina Vanja, Kassel, Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 44 (2017) 3, 571-573

• IntroductionMartin Dinges and Michael StolbergPART 11. Cornucopia Officinae Medicae: Medical Practice Records and Their OriginVolker Hess and Sabine Schlegelmilch2. Doctors and Their Patients in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth CenturiesMarion Baschin, Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum and Iris Ritzmann3. Daily Business: The Organization and Finances of Doctors’ PracticesPhilipp Klaas, Hubert Steinke and Alois Unterkircher4. Medicine in Practice: Knowledge, Diagnosis and TherapyAnnemarie Kinzelbach, Stephanie Neuner and Karen Nolte5. Medical Practice in Context: Religion, Family, Politics and Scientific NetworksRuth Schilling and Kay Peter JankriftPART 26. ‘What a Magnificent Work a Good Physician is’: The Medical Practice of Johannes Magirus (1615–1697)Sabine Schlegelmilch7. Observationes et Curationes Nurimbergenses: The Medical Practice of Johann Christoph Götz (1688–1733)Annemarie Kinzelbach, Susanne Grosser, Kay Peter Jankrift and Marion Ruisinger8. Social Mobility and Medical Practice: Johann Friedrich Glaser (1707–1789)Ruth Schilling9. Medical Bedside Training and Healthcare for the Poor in the Würzburg and Göttingen Policlinics in the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyStephanie Neuner and Karen Nolte10. Unlicensed Practice: A Lay Healer in Rural SwitzerlandAlois Unterkircher and Iris Ritzmann11. Administrative and Epistemic Aspects of Medical Practice: Caesar Adolf Bloesch (1804–1863)Lina Gafner12. Franz von Ottenthal: Local Integration of an Alpine Doctor’s Private Practice (1847–1899)Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum, Marina Hilber and Eberhard Wolff13. A Special Kind of Practice? The Homeopath Friedrich von Bönninghausen (1828–1910)Marion Baschin