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Contracting a Cure
Gianna Pomata
其他書名
Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna
出版Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
主題Law / Medical Law & LegislationMedical / Health Care DeliveryMedical / History
ISBN08018585859780801858581
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dvvaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In Contracting a Cure, Gianna Pomata tells the hitherto unknown story of a fundamental shift in the relationship between healers and patients in early modern Europe. Using a wide array of sources - including the rich archives of Bologna's College of Medicine and legal records from several European countriesPomata explores the tradition of the "agreement for a cure" whereby the practitioner was contractually bound to heal the sick person within a specified period and for a stipulated sum. If the patient was not cured, he or she had a legal right to reclaim from the practitioner any money advanced for the cure. The author argues that such contracts implied a "horizontal model" of healing that gave considerable power to patients and that, in consequence, was a serious hindrance to the growing power of the medical profession.