Papers based on the proceedings of a seminar 9/17-19/79 in Wolfenbüttel which was sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the Herzog August Bibliothek
Includes bibliographical references
Continuity or rediscovery? / Vivian Nutton -- Physicians and the state in post-mediaeval Italy / Richard Palmer -- State control of the physician in the Middle Ages / Ghanda Karmi -- The medical profession in 16th century Spain / José María López-Piñero -- Public medicine and medical careers in France during the reign of Louis XV / Toby Gelfand -- The physici in German-speaking countries from the Middle-Ages to the Enlightenment / Manfred Stürzbecher -- The development of the district medical officer in Hungary from the Middle Ages to the 18th century / Norbert Duka-Zólyomi -- The town and state physicians in Switzerland from the 16th to 18th centuries / Huldrych Koelbing
