Medizin im Konflikt

In Medizin im Konflikt, Jana Madlen Schütte analyses the status of medical doctors between university and market in the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the early modern period. Their positon initially at the universities as well as on the medical market was precarious. As the smallest faculty, medicine had to stand up to the other disciplines. Meanwhile, as participants in the medical market, the faculty members had to face competitors such as barbers, surgeons, apothecaries, and Jewish doctors. Jana Madlen Schütte explores how this situation of dual conflict affected the actions of the medical doctors and the strategies that they employed to demonstrate that their approaches were scientific as well as practical.

Jana Madlen Schütte studied History and German in Göttingen and received a Ph.D. in Medieval and Modern History from the University of Göttingen (2015). Her main research interests include the history of universities and the sciences as well as the history of medicine.

''Schütte’s extensive presentation and discussion of the state of the art will be of great service to those readers looking for a competent and up-to-date survey, especially of the rich German-language historical scholarship on the topics she approaches in her book.''
Michael Stolberg, in Renaissance Quarterly , LXXII, NO.1 (2018).