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Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany

Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany

Hutchinson, Christopher

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Series: Early Modern Exchange

Medical ReferenceLiterary CriticismGerman History

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ISBN10: 1644534282
ISBN13: 9781644534281
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany examines how doctors, writers, and printers in sixteenth-century Germany responded to the rapid expansion of print and its implications for medical knowledge. The spread of printed texts generated widespread suspicion about print's reliability as a conduit of information and led writers to reflect on questions of audience, vernacularity, and medical authority in their responses to disease. The book investigates literary texts alongside popular vernacular medical pamphlets on the major epidemic diseases of the period--plague, syphilis, and the English sweating sickness--to reveal a widespread concern with the impact of printed texts on public health. During the 1529 outbreak of the English sweating sickness, this concern culminated in writers' use of a rhetoric of virality, explicitly comparing the circulation of texts to the spread of disease, as they confronted the parallel contagions of disease and information.

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